Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshall dates his book 1912-14 and in a prefatory note says carefully: "I understand that the abuses so common thirty years ago no longer exist." But Schooldays reminded its readers that the Government's Fleming Report (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), urging that public schools admit Judy O'Grady's kids too, was still gathering dust...
...Currency Committee listened to a steady hum of argument in its favor. C.I.O. President Philip Murray thought it an "essential first step in expanding world trade in which American labor has a vital stake." Said U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston: "The American system of competitive capitalism cannot exist in a contracting world. . . . [The loan] will help create jobs for 5,000,000 U.S. workers...
...became head of the Government. He organized Madrid's defenses, armed the labor unions. He sounded like his old Barcelona anarchist competitors when he growled: "I would like to see every bricklayer go to work with his rifle slung on his shoulder. Then I know that nothing could exist in Spain except the will of the great mass of the Spaniards...
...summer day, when the old ways and excitements have ceased to have meaning, and the most familiar streets and houses have lost their familiar look; when the ear catches nothing but sounds that are incomplete, and the eye is deceived by apparent glimpses of things that do not really exist. The culminating point of all this-the hysterical excitement that surrounds her brother's wedding and her vain attempt to run away from home-merely marks the dividing line between awkward F. Jasmine Addams, Esq., and the poised young high-school student named Frances Addams, who smiles condescendingly...
...scholars finally agreed that democracy can be measured by two "signs" and two "conditions." The signs: shared power and shared respect. The conditions: economic balance (poverty leads to despotism) and enlightenment. One flaw in Webster's abstract definitions: areas of despotism can exist in a democracy, and he doesn't say so. The film shows such areas of despotism within U.S. democracy as the Ku Klux Klan, a resort accepting only a "selected" (Christian) clientele...