Word: government
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to resist the present drift towards nationalism vigorous action is necessary. It is the pressure of organized, separate interests which is forcing national politics into protection and is strangling world trade. Until these separate interests are subordinated to the general good of the nation, until nations are governed by true national policy rather than destructive nationalism, no progress is possible. As Sir Arthur Salter sees it, the world is full of governments who fail to govern, if they are to save themselves from destruction they must rid themselves of the dictation of particular private interests and once again assert...
...known to all and sundry . . . but that, as Kipling says, is another story. Not that he has no interest in the vague and changing things which men call laws: the music of the spheres, and the glamour of the dusty night-court alike bewitch him. But the laws that govern men are most enticing. Horoscopes, new as they may be to Harvard, perhaps explain as well why Thou art Thou, as do the addled Viennese hiero-phants. Be that as it may, the rise of the Corsican, the fall of the Hapsburgs, even the tale of a Freshman...
...vastness of the ocean tract, the force of the one vessel on the conduct of the other, caused the Vagabond to muse further on the underlying principles of the occurrence. What rules to govern the vessels of the seven seas? How determine the rights of yonder tramp steamer standing out to the Shoals? The bookcase resumed its original form again to answer these questions, and the Vagabond stared on, until from a maze of crimson jackets and calfskin bindings the words came out--Mare Liberum, Grotius...
...experience of every govern-ment in the world since that day has confirmed Webster's statement...
...dynamic system compared with the static system of history. The controls of the static age, namely the price system of production, are opposed to the controls which must govern the dynamic age of Technology. Under the price system the accumulation of wealth means the accumulation of debt certificates?wealth proceeds by the creation of debt. The present total accumulation of public, private and corporate debt in the U. S. amounts to $200,000,000,000, or expressed in another way, claims against the producing machinery of the U. S. have doubled since...