Word: faith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became Secretary of State was the day last week when he sat down at Franklin Roosevelt's desk to put his name on a reciprocal trade treaty with Canada. By that act he served one of his most profound convictions. Nothing has ever shaken Mr. Hull's faith in the venerable Democratic doctrine of low tariff. To him a tariff fence erected to prevent men trading with other men across a man-made international boundary line is no less an economic crime than any law passed to forbid men from trading with others across a county line, across...
...townsmen wish to preclude all possibilities of shaking their faith; the students want to examine, to hear, to know. This may be the characteristic contrast between age and youth; it is certainly the principal revelation of the survey questionnaire...
...Italians seemed to be thinking was well phrased by General Garibaldi: "If there is a war, England will give us a whipping, but the English will know they've been in a fight! Italy must expand. We can't go on begging always. Today we have first, faith in Mussolini, and second we have steel-hot or cold...
...herring factory. Less a novel than a family chronicle, it is filled with glowing tributes to the sturdiness, to the unbeatable optimism of the clan, ends with an inspirational scene in which young Silas and his bride think back over the years and apprehend the radiant reality of their faith. Worldly readers may feel that the Crocketts, better endowed with backbone than with acumen, never properly realized that things were rapidly going from bad to worse...
Above all, don't save. Don't invest. There is too damn much of that in this country. What we need is spending, consumption; nothing would give so much employment as a good fire. If you don't think so, you have no social feeling, no faith, no sympathy, no Co-operation...