Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expounds to them his naïve conception of human affairs. "I like to think of civilization as a parade," he observes, making the point that mass destiny is more important than the fate of the individual. Somewhere else among the Dean's motor-minded messages upon Good & Evil there occurs the traffic-signal metaphor that gives the work its title...
...failed to flush any dark lots lurking behind the measure. Knocked about state legislatures for thirteen years, it has no continuous and cohesive political backing, nor can the the welfare agencies that push it along be chargeo with ambition for dictatorship. Justly enough the opponents point out the possible evil uses of the broad power. What they forget are the other guarantees of the Constitution, the tradition of the courts, and the stubbornly democratic attitude of the people shown now in the fight against Supreme Court changes. The narrow margin with which the amendment would squeeze into the Constitution itself...
...came to the point which he wished to drive home: whether or not-all other opposition having been crushed-the Supreme Court was still to stand in the way of the New Deal. To approach it, he turned to the question of NRA: "Overproduction, underproduction and speculation are three evil sisters who distill the troubles of unsound inflation and disastrous deflation. . . . Sober second thought confirms most of us in the belief that the broad objectives of the National Recovery Act were sound. We know now that its difficulties arose from the fact that it tried to do too much...
...huge, realistic fortress. Below its battlements capered Satan, in multi-colored garments, and a horde of red devils bent on storming the "Fortress of Faith." Massed brass bands blared, everybody burst into song and with tremendous enthusiasm the "Defenders of the Faith" rushed down and scattered the forces of evil. More quietly but with smart military precision the graduating class deployed, reformed ranks, ran through a series of drill maneuvers. Then Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of LIFE, appeared on the stage of her Angelus Temple, sermonized until long after midnight...
...going to be Premier, and apparently Premier Chiang slipped back into all his offices, including that which brings in $3,500,000 per month from opium. All China was meanwhile being violently jolted out of thinking about the recent kidnapping and into thinking about the drug evil. In one of the most lurid scare-campaigns in Asiatic history, coffins were hastily knocked together and balanced on top of Chinese city walls, while local authorities shouted that anybody caught selling, buying or smoking opium was going to be executed beginning New Year's Day. In Peiping alone 100,000 executions...