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Word: frees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free market demands a constant flow of purchasing power, and as the fatal kink in that flow under modern capitalism is unearned income derived from fixed interest rates, the kink should be straightened by a reduction-ultimately an extinction-of dividends and interest. Holdings of public institutions should be excepted. The trick would be turned gradually by cutting down on the rights of inheritance. In the end, business men would do their borrowing entirely from the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Constructive Anatomy | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...making them stay busted, another course becomes appropriate: "If a job in corporate industry constituted a property right . . . industrial managers would normally find it profitable to keep their workers fully occupied," thus expanding production, lowering prices. Parkes argues that workers would give up a fixed wage if they were free to choose their industries, guaranteed (within limits) a job, and if wages varied suitably with corporate profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Constructive Anatomy | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...salons and boudoirs of Europe (Queen Maria Luisa of Spain was rumored one of the many). Then suddenly he left on a walking tour with his old tutor, a votary of Rousseau and the Greeks. Three months later, in Italy, Bolívar made his melodramatic vow to free the Spanish colonies in South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Liberator | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...P.B.H. idea has been slightly modified in its new application. Whereas Harvard's Undergraduate Faculty is designed to meet the needs of school students who want free tutoring, or high school graduates financially unable to go to college, the groups in California exist solely for undergraduates, though they may later be extended to include extension students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adoption of PBH's Tutoring System Is Successful in West | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...attitude of others whose riches lie in the field of learning. These clear voices, however, disclose nothing but the wish to advise the inexperienced and heedless concerning the facts of life. The educated freeman has a deep interest in opposing the contraction of the area where thought is free, but modern warfare, in which the machine crushes man as never before, gives peace loving people added realization of the danger to civilization of permitting war to be used for any ends other than resistance to aggression. When war is used as a means of aggressive expression, however, by a government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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