Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact, the establishment of an expertly trained civil service may be a great aid in the preservation of democracy. For in an age in which governmental control is steadily increasing, the only force that may save America from a centralized dictatorship is the presence of an efficient public service. The decision of the government, therefore, in enlisting education in its behalf could not be more timely...
...this work. Last week he expressed, through Secretary Hull, his condolences upon the death of a man who had influenced U. S. life for 17 years, a man to whom Franklin Roosevelt had lately seemed to be turning as an ally in his stand for democracy against dictatorship (TIME, Jan. 9). Congress, too, paid its respects to that man as a temporal sovereign. For the first time since 1871 Congress adjourned to honor the death of a Pope...
...famed Deweyite educators, among them Professors Harold Rugg and George S. Counts and Professor-Emeritus William H. Kilpatrick of Dewey's Columbia's Teachers College. Examining contemporary society, Dr. Dewey's followers conclude that: 1) a world-wide struggle is being fought beween democracy and dictatorship; 2) the U. S. is a "depressed society" and will probably continue so for many years; 3) rascism is rising in the U. S.; 4) not much time remains to do anything about...
...picture at San Pedro Harbor, watched a boat loading scrap iron for Japan. It occurred to him that it takes something besides bandages for China to fight scrap iron for Japan, and that the peaceful artisans of Hollywood have most to lose from the world rise of militarism and dictatorship. He talked with Actors Melvyn Douglas and Edward G. Robinson. They all talked with Clark Eichelberger, a League of Nations advocate and chairman of the Committee for Concerted Peace Efforts. After a series of parlor parleys in the best Hollywood manner, they emerged with a "Declaration of Democratic Independence," phrased...
...astonishment at Lincoln amounted to awe. On the day his diary opens, Lincoln "quietly grinned" when he was told of a plot to murder him. When told of the generals' ambition to set up a military dictatorship, Lincoln was reminded of Jim Jett's brother: "Jim used to say that his brother was the damndest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence he was also the damndest fool...