Word: counteractivity
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...eternal verities, such as they are, seem best to be apprehended by the historical method. Such study can counteract the isolating effects of scientific or philosophical concentration. The laboratory concentrator may gain the scientific ideal of truth, but the garish light of day, outside of the walls of Mallinckrodt, may color anew the values he has learned by lamp-light. And philosophy, as it is taught at Harvard, cannot even do that, but produces an intellectual dry rot, crumbling when touched...
Only a Federal agency can have sufficient resources to swing a crop insurance scheme. Consequently, there will be every opening for misuse of funds and playing of politics unless Congress makes express provisions to counteract them. Again, the lawmakers must provide for adequate appraisal of land values, as farmers could otherwise overstate their expected yield. A well-considered law must allow for these and allied abuses, and seek to minimize the wastage due to government handling of the job. Otherwise the costs of the gigantic scheme could be utterly prohibitive...
...both asked me to write newspaper articles to counteract unfavorable publicity to which you had been subjected. . . . There is no word in the articles which is not accurate." Mrs. Simpson cabled back, said Mr. Noyes: "No intention whatsoever my part damage your personal or professional reputation. . . . You constantly refer to 'job you both asked me to do." I have talked to other party, who assures me he had no idea you were even going to write an article but believed you were simply going to use your American press connections to correct picture of me personally in America. Neither...
...passion for anonymity"; from top to bottom federal personnel will go under civil service. All these suggestions tend to center power in the President, as the channels of authority to the twelve departments will be cleared of every obstacle and direct responsibility to the White House emphasized. To counteract this tendency, Mr. Roosevelt proposes that Congress make the executive accountable by an independent audit of his financial transactions...
That night, having rested less than three days from his Drought trip, the President entrained for the South. To counteract Gene Talmadge's anti-Roosevelt convention of "Goober Democrats" at Macon last winter, Southern New Dealers had for months been planning to demonstrate their loyalty at a "Green Pastures" rally in Charlotte, N. C. On his way to address it with a "nonpolitical" speech, President Roosevelt left his train at Knoxville, climbed into an open automobile and headed a caravan of Democratic Governors and Congressmen up a new 140-mile highway through Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Its woodsy...