Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...irresponsibility of public utterances during the last ten years is one of the most alarming facts of democracy. Behind it apparently lay the breakdown of what had been a common faith. Under the exigencies of abnormal times, we seemed to forget that the fellow who was advocating isolation or the New Deal or whatever we were opposed to had the same interest in the future of the country and the betterment of the people as we had. The oratorical extravagances that became the cliches of politics indicated much more than a quaint Americanism. They indicate a fundamental distrust that strikes...
...Breakdown. His plan, already fact in many factories: break down jobs and training to simpler operations. E.g., although it takes two years to train a machinist, an unskilled hand can be taught to run a lathe (a machinist's first lesson) in six to eight weeks at school. Then he graduates to a factory, begins at once to produce on his lathe. Thereafter he progresses, under instruction from a factory foreman and in night school, to drill press, shaper, planer, grinder, milling and screw machine. Advantages of this system: 1) training is much faster, 2) trainees produce while they...
...description is accurate, dramatic, elegiac. Europe's breakdown "cannot be explained in terms of any single revolutionary formula." A series of sinister political geniuses, he believes, had something to do with it. "Lenin was its herald and pioneer. Hitler has made a great contribution. Mussolini and Stalin have played important roles. . . . But the revolt is not the handiwork of any single man or group of men. . . . Over this tremendous collapse . . . broods a strong element of fatalistic inevitability...
...most tremendous sort of dislocations in both domestic and international political and social relations. It has meant in home affairs that the socialist planning idea has grown to such an extent that New Dealism has realized many of its aims. In international affairs it is manifest in the breakdown of export-industrialism and free trade. Not only is this true in Germany where the ultimate solution was war for living room, but also in England where the Ottawa Agreements and the whole postwar tariff system signified a desperate resort to self-sufficiency...
...poll shows, in a class and school breakdown, that the class of 1944 and the Law School have the greatest amount of interventionist sentiment, 80 percent in each case favoring questions one and two. The Freshmen come close behind with 77 percent, Seniors with 75 percent, and Juniors with 73 percent. In the Graduate School 67 percent also concur, whereas the Divinity School maintained its "stay-out" attitude with only 41 percent favoring further isolation...