Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also are challenged as outworn and inadequate for the necessities of the present day. The challenge in its immediate pressure is economic and political but it carries with it and drawn strength from spiritual dissatisfaction. Neither the Republican party nor the Democratic have shown themselves capable of recognizing the basic problems to say nothing of handling them. The socialist party in this country appears to lose in intellectual vigor as it gains in popular support. The party attempts to reform capitalist society from the inside and the consequent moderation, although it appeals to the progressive, destroys its effectiveness for radical...
...younger generation, and Mr. Lindley apparently identifies it with what is represented faithfully by a few serious-minded Yale seniors, is "going into politics fifty thousand strong." What is it going to do there? Mr. Lindley sees no need for reorganization, for any basic changes in the social structure. The fifty thousand are going to be "Honest...
...Return to New York. "Nest Egg," By radio from his Albany officeGovernor Roosevelt last week laid down "certain great basic principles'' of his relief program. Said he: "The primary duty rests on the community through local government and private agencies to take care of the relief of unemployment. . . . Where there are so many people out of work that local funds are insufficient, the state comes into the picture. . . . Where the state itself is unable successfully to fulfill this obligation it then becomes the positive duty of the Federal Government to step in to help. . . . It took the present...
...Indeed it is not enough to do it in the domestic field alone. Business is crying for more integrated rules throughout the world on all basic economic activities...
...want you to hear the voice of thousands of millions of people in all highly industrialized countries who are the mainspring of business, and millions of whom are now out of work, not so much because basic economic laws have been violated, as because man-made laws have impaired, and in some cases wholly destroyed the opportunity of men readily and safely to exchange with each other the things they need and the things they have made...