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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear, and the fact that we have a President who is, as many think, operating on the assumption that the parliamentary mechanism is sufficient does not change the situation, nor abridge the limits which his position imposes. What are the sanctions for a government control of industry that will destroy the private producer constitutionally? The answer is none, and no pretension to emergency power can change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE | 1/5/1934 | See Source »

...this came from Lawrence's conviction that Murry was not willing to "destroy us both" for perfect understanding. Mr. Murry has given us a strange, and a touching, meta-physical exegesis of these passages. Mrs. Carswell took the more obvious line of branding Murry as a traitor to Lawrence; Murry has shown that she left very little of literary ethic intact after "The Savage Pilgrimage". As a document for the understanding of the controversy. Mr. Murry's book is valuable, as a key to Mr. Murry's psychology it takes rank with his life of Christ and his "metabiological treatise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Start of The Rainbow | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

...Russia, war would be a disaster, since it would destroy its second Five Year Plan. Such a conflict would be precipitated only by Japan, probably using the railroad situation as a pretext. An aggressive move of this sort would not be preceded by a formal declaration of war; Japan would merely enter Russia and seize land, as she did in the Manchukuo dispute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russo-Japanese War Imminent, Says Bryan, Returned From Visit to Russia-No Enmity From Europe Over Recognition | 12/19/1933 | See Source »

Mussolini used Liberalism as a tool to destroy the existing order, then he threw it aside. The same was true of Lenin and Hitler Liberalism is simply a weapon, in the present American crisis, for the purpose of destroying the ideals and institutions that have made us the best, most advanced and happiest nation in the world. If we are to survive, so-called Liberalism must be replaced by our time-worn methods that have stood the test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

Many features of the N.R.A. are excellent: the recovery, Administration training, working hours, thereby eliminating the sweat shop, it nationalizes labor legislation, it abolishes child labor and annual it helps destroy unfair competitive practices. But in spite of all these virtues, said Edward S. Mason, Associate Professor of Economics, in an interviwe with the CRIMSON, "I am decidedly to the N.R.A...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mason Opposes N.R.A., in Spite of Advantages and Progressive Features | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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