Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opponents. It was a statesman who was also a philosopher who wrote, 'No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. To make anything very terrible obscurity seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes...
...That only one important New Deal law, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, is now in danger in the Courts; that the Administration apparently has a courtproof substitute for AAA in the present Soil Conservation Law, which is adequate to deal with the Dust Bowl; that the biggest project which the Supreme Court will not allow the New Deal is another NRA, and six new judges could not make that constitutional for the Supreme Court was unanimous upon...
...conclusion, may I point out the particular danger involved in one argument advanced. It is said that an emergency exists and, therefore, speed is necessary. There are a few great emergencies such as civil or foreign war which confront a nation from time to time and justify emergency measures, either by legislative or administrative action. But every instance in which an emergency is claimed to exist must be examined with the greatest care. Unless this is done, the country may proceed under the banner of emergency legislation down a road which leads to the abolition of democratic government...
...previous Thursday Mr. Roosevelt had thundered that we were facing a crisis that called for immediate action. At that time at least one third of a nation wondered what this crisis was. It now seems that the dangers of a boom are again in the offiing, and that we are "at a crisis in our ability" to protect ourselves against these dangers. But none of the laws invalidated by the nine defeatists were designed to prevent a boom; the Bank Acts of 1933 and 1935, which the President pushed through Congress for this purpose, are still on the books...
...misinterpretations, the recriminations, the bickerings and the hazards involved in a campaign of political action. . . . On their side, the Japanese will have for the years 1937 and 1938 a volume of business greatly in excess of any previously enjoyed in the American market. . . They are also freed from the danger of tariff increases or other forms of restrictive legislation...