Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Niebuhr's survey of the breakdown of capitalism is able, and sometimes brilliant. But it does not contain the real body of his contribution to our political understanding. It is in his keen criticism of Marxism as a religion (for it is a religion, whatever its pretensions to pure science may be), and in his treatment of its relation, doctrinal and actual, to other and older religions that Dr. Niebuhr is on the most fruitful ground...
...there has ever been an opportunity for law that is "a kind of social engineering," the present child labor movement presents it to the Roosevelt administration. The breakdown of state and local government in the United States is only the last of a long series of reasons for the relegation of child labor reform to Washington. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to appreciate the force of Mr. Smith's objections, and it is difficult to see how his poor substitute for the proposed law can claim the advantages of smooth passage and enforceability, since the card he suggests...
...course of his address, Dr. Mason considered the breakdown of the free market a cause of the present economic instability. Some economists believe that the solution lies in the restoration of the free market, while others wish to install a new economic order. Considering the beliefs of the first group, the Harvard economist stated that the reduction of the tariff might restore free trade, and a modification of the anti-trust laws might do much to eliminate monopolies. Furthermore, most economists agree that the control of the expansion of credit would aid in effecting economic recovery. However, Dr. Mason felt...
...present abnormal Federal bureaucracy, and unavoidable corollary of the breakdown of local governments incidental to the breakdown of local finances, must be wiped out through a drastic revision of the national system of taxation," said Gaspar G. Bacon '05, Republican candidate for Governor, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
...Four weeks after The Lake started its successful London run last March, Co-author Massingham, recovering from influenza and a nervous breakdown, was found dead in a gas-filled room...