Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unhappy events in Spain are to be prevented from having serious repercussions elsewhere." Simultaneously Whitehall buzzed with rumors that Army, Navy and Air Force experts were actually studying whether intervention by an expeditionary force to Spain may become "requisite." For centuries it has been London's basic policy that Britain must oppose whichever power on the Continent is strongest, lest it overwhelm her in the end. Today an important Cabinet faction close to Squire Baldwin holds that "the strongest European power" is now not any one country but the international Socialist-Communist forces of the "Popular Front" which have...
...persons, permanently crippled 105,000, hurt 1,000,000 more, with a total property loss of some $1,600,000,000. One of the first to see that this carnage and waste on the highways was not due to a flock of local factors but to a few basic inefficiencies was a young Leland Stanford graduate named Miller McClintock...
...longtime law partner of his had been a Jew, that long before the current campaign began he had hired a Jew as his secretary. "Governor Landon," cried he, "is just as tolerant as I am. . . . The religious issue has no part in a campaign. It involves the very basic elements of our form of government and jeopardizes the very foundations of the Constitution. But jeopardizing the Constitution is nothing to the New Dealers, who have been jeopardizing it now for nearly four years...
...extralegal powers of the secret political police; 4) Nazi persecution of the German Protestant churches; 5) the Nazi philosophy of "blood, race and soil"; 6) the training of school children in "the old German paganism"; 7) the Nazi glorification of the Aryan race; 8) antiSemitism; 9) the basic Nazi doctrine of "nationalist utilitarianism" by which only what is good for the State is good; and 10) the falsification of the real results of the so-called 99% Reichstag election last March...
Unique in industrial life are machine tools. They not only make all other machines but can also reproduce themselves. Composed of scores of small companies, many family-owned, the machine-tool industry is really more basic than steel, for it takes machine tools to make the machines which make steel. Machine-tool orders are a prime index of the business outlook, reflecting as they do businessmen's confidence in adding new equipment or in replacing the old or obsolete...