Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber of Commerce and big business, but by any standard of judgement must be pronounced Fascist rather than Communist. The Republicans are walking on equally thin ice when they attack the the A.A.A. For if what Governor Landon is promising is not an A.A.A., it is a reasonably exact facsimile. The "class hatred" bogey has been used with spirit, but it was the Republican Theodore Roosevelt who started the march and coined the phrase, "malefactors of great wealth...
...should no longer be necessary to deny that the Washington government of the past four years bears a Cambridge trademark. In spite of the American Mercury's description of Mr. Rosevelt as a "typical product of its training," the exact opposite seems to be true to those familiar with its ideals and teachings. Harvard's historical battle from Dunster and Leverett to Lowell and Conant, has been for a free university in a free commonwealth...
...first things Chairman Hamilton did was to get out a memorandum detailing the exact duties and authority of every one of his division heads, naming Harrison Earl Spangler as Executive Vice Chairman to run things in his future absences. Vice Chairman Spangler, short, florid Iowa lawyer and gentleman farmer, as field marshal of Party organizers, aimed to have by Election Day one personal-pressure worker (Republican Volunteer) for every 30 voters in the land. Last week, when Chairman Hamilton sallied off to Washington and Manhattan, he left behind a functioning organization, notable for the facts that its members were...
...both of whom spoke in Madison last week, are learning to focus x-ray beams of hundreds of thousands of volts upon cancerous internal organs and to bring about some cures. But no specialist can yet explain why radiations destroy cancers any more than a specialist can describe the exact conditions which permit a cancer to develop...
...middle of the last century, in 1867 to be exact, the head of one of the Oxford colleges, an eminent scholar and educational reformer, saw no evidence that the university tradition had ever taken root in the United States. "America has no universities as we understand the term" he wrote, "the institutions so called being merely places for granting titular degrees." Taken literally this harsh judgment is undoubtedly false, and yet I venture to think that it is not a gross exaggeration of the situation which then existed. The new spirit moving within the educational institutions of this country...