Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Japanese have put 130,000 men in Manchuria, plus 110,000 or 115,000 troops of the Manchukuo Army and 12,000 Russian White Guards. . . . We have barred our frontier with a lock of steel and concrete strong enough to resist the sharpest teeth. . . . We fear no comparison with an enemy in tanks and aviation...
...punished only by annulling their contracts and thereby causing them financial loss. It does not speak well for our society that a man can rob the government of millions of dollars and get away scot-free, when others are sentenced to long terms for offenses which are slight by comparison. Still worse than this is the fact that those who have committed the worst crime of all, betrayal of a public trust, are apparently not even to be prosecuted; on Postmaster General Brown and his assistant, Mr. Glover, most of the blame for the whole affair must rest...
...budget as an awful, ipso facto warning that the U. S. is headed for uncontrolled inflation. "His words are brave words," said the Liberal News Chronicle, "but can America, with its traditions of highly individualistic, not to say lawless, private enterprise in industry, and its great lack (in comparison with this country) of trained professional civil servants, be induced to accept the degree of state control over the social and economic structure which President Roosevelt clearly proposes...
...assets, none; his own assets, the red brick house he lives in near Dearborn's Main Street, a few shares of stock (which he offers to pledge to meet the claims of creditors), real estate in Livingston County, Mich., not one automobile. Detroiters who made this comparison did not find it odious, either to William or to Henry. They knew that Depression had been too much for William's business, that also an individualist, but in a different way, he would not ask help from Henry, would probably not accept it if offered. Last week Detroit...
Throughout the volume, the bankers are in for the castigation which one would expect of an administration sympathizer. An amazing comparison, of the investigation of the House of Morgan with an investigation of Tammany enlivens the book. Similar characteristics are observed in the following pairs; J. P. Morgan and John F. Curry (simple honest belief in the "system"), George W. Whitney and James J. Walker (plausibility and simple thought), Thomas W. Lamont and John W. Delaney (astuteness), Otto H. Kahn and John H. McGooey (affable admission of error...