Word: collectivist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the beginning of his career, Brandeis' words and actions unceasingly carried out the policy of social direction that he helped to make famous. He was an individualist in his actions without adhering to laissez-faire; he was a collectivist in his program without adhering to the bureaucratic state. He had an abundant faith in human goodness and a tolerant distrust of human frailties. The strength of this precarious balance of thought lay in its being made up of a belief in the value of reason, an immense ethical fervor, a concrete and massive knowledge, and a firm insistence...
...thought Jefferson was leading the U.S. down the path to anarchy and despotism followed by the French Revolution. Just as Herbert Hoover fears the influence of collectivist ideas in the New Deal, so did Fisher Ames fear the influence of French revolutionary thinkers in the men around Jefferson. He saw revolutionists everywhere, undermining, raising popular passions, obstructing, subverting and-he feared-eventually revolutionizing the Government. He was as opposed as Herbert Hoover to embargoes and quarantines. We cannot "quarrel our way into their good will," said he. "I hope we shall show . . . that we deem it better policy to feed...
American Legion Commander Milo J. Warner: "We [admonish] . . . textbook authors not to regard it as their province to use the schoolroom as a sounding board whereon the glories of the collectivist society shall be preached...
...Hearst's repeated encomiums for Mexico as she now is. Last week, back in high good humor from his first trip below the Rio Grande since Mexico's Government expropriated a lot of foreign property, Mexican Ranch Owner Hearst, who said not one public word against the collectivist Cardenas regime and thus came through into the sunnier Avila Camacho regime with the loss of only 18,000 of his million-plus acres, declared: "They were pretty decent about that. They didn't take any more than was right. After all it is their country." - The Millville...
Against him stands honest-to-goodness General Juan Andreu Almazán, who is supported by the Right and talks Left. He claims the backing of the Mexican Revolutionary Party (which supports Cárdenas) and has promised peasant ownership of the land in place of the present collectivist system. He also has the backing of many business interests, would probably play ball with foreign business. A favorite game of the Almazanistas is to rip down Avila Camacho posters during the night, replace them with Almazan posters, which are in turn ripped down the next night and replaced by Avila...