Word: collectivistic
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Candidate Gannett proposes to stake his campaign on the proposition that the New Deal should be pretty generally liquidated, that: "The nation cannot live half collectivist and half free." So said he this week at a monster testimonial dinner in Rochester's Powers Hotel, where his candidacy was formally announced. "I ask by means of this letter to be counted in," wrote upstate New York's potent Congressman James W. Wadsworth (see p. 18), whom Publisher Gannett helped turn out of the U. S. Senate in 1926. An interested if distant observer in Washington was Frank Gannett...
Roosevelt's scheme to quarantine aggressors, according to Borchard's paper, embodies a collectivist principle which so far has resulted only in "failure and humiliation...
...Liberal states, very much the "haves" as contrasted to the collectivist "have-nots", must form a "Democintern" to combat the systematic expansion of the Comintern and the Fascintern, Hopper said...
...founders badly. He claims that gradual collectivism advances by concession to pressure groups, and thus he groups the Republicans who gave special privileges to corporations with the New Dealers who give bounties to farmers. Mr. Lippmann finds that these favors cannot be wisely dispensed by a democracy. "The gradual collectivist. . . has to believe that an elected parliament will distribute its privileges according to the push and pull of organized interests. Is this conceivable in a democracy?" This conception of democracy's limitations is quite different from that of the founding father who said: "The regulation of these various and interfering...
...cows produced enough milk to supply the embassy's needs, plus some for bartering purposes with the otherwise well-supplied neighboring British Embassy. Cannaday's measure No. 2 was the purchase of ninety skins of olive oil from a man who feared confiscation by Spain's collectivist-bent Anarchists. Cannaday knew the promise of a few litres of this precious fluid would get action when money, pleading, pressure failed...