Word: depends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elliot advocated the application of sanctions to all Fascist countries, which depend on expansion for their existence, and in that way are a universal threat to democracy. While we would be running the risk of a war as a retaliatory measure, it would be better to "take the risk now, than to try to deal with it less effectively later...
...everyone participating will presumably gain the viewpoint of all the rest. If such a program can be built about this subject, other equally valuable symposia could be held on the American Civil War, for example, or on the political repercussions of the industrial revolution. Much will depend on the success of next week's experiment; but it can safely be said that great possibilities for valuable and stimulating discussion are to be found in this new version of inter-field activity...
Everything seemed to depend on the New Deal's desires in the matter. It has been no fun to have Franklin Roosevelt's most savage critic, the Chicago Tribune, dominating the New Deal's Chicago machine. Mayor Kelly, despite several visits from stodgy "draft-Kelly" committees, could doubtless be shelved by a nice Federal appointment. So, perhaps, could ambitious Tom Courtney, who might even be set up to succeed Governor Horner. Having him for Mayor of Chicago would be no fun for the New Deal either since he is the personal candidate of Colonel Frank Knox...
...Ernest Victor Hollis, author of Philanthropic Foundations and Higher Education (Columbia University Press) told eastern university business officers in Pittsburgh this week that the trend is toward a broader base of college support. Most colleges, if they are to survive, said he, will in future have to depend on 1) tax funds or 2) numerous modest gifts from tax-evaders...
...sharp contrast to Marriner Eccles, the overwhelming majority of U. S. businessmen agree that if U. S. prosperity is forever going to depend on Government spending, the stretches of prosperity will be short, however sweet...