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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dickinson is quite convinced that modern politics and government are in a sorry state of decay. "We have," he remarked, "not a government, but a tyranny of organized ignorance; of the morons, by the morons, and for the morons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dickinson, Demon Red Gig Speedster, Complains of Modern False Patriotism | 12/7/1935 | See Source »

Judge Hamilton: "If we cling to the doctrine of states' rights in the matter of commerce as it existed in the early days of the republic, a palsied hand holds the power, and decay will set in in our nation before its time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Coal Act | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...nation will never fall beneath the conquering tread of an invader. It will never be lured to chaos and destruction by the red flag of Communism. If this Government is destined to follow the course of human history and, in the fullness of time, to fall into ruin and decay, it will perish as the result of official dishonesty and corruption within the State and nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Prelude to Ruin | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...harbinger of ruin and decay, Governor Johnson nominated his own Secretary of State, James H. Carr, 32, youngest Colorado official in history. He asked the Assembly to impeach and remove Mr. Carr from office. Secretary Carr, a dapper, toothbrush-mustached flashy dresser, hired as his attorneys Frederick E. Dickerson, Denver Democratic leader, and George Evans, friend of Colorado's rural Legislators. He attended the House hearings sipping milk for an ailing stomach. The story told in court against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Prelude to Ruin | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...addition to the sexual trophies of Ethiopian warriors who had castrated their enemy, lepers in advanced stages of physical decay were depicted mingling with the populace of Ethiopian towns. Snapped in Ethiopian jails were prisoners chained amid human excrement. Among printable pictures in the white book, one shows a normal Ethiopian flogging, administered daily to culprits throughout the Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Evidence | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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