Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already seen several slumps like the one that featured Saturday's upset. They sank into the depths before they went to Canada, rising only to fall back again after their spectacular game with McGill at New Haven in which the Northerners just managed to win, 3-2. A gradual comeback culminated in the 7-2 victory over the Tigers, a contest that saw the Elis at their best display a fast coordinated attack that ripped the Orange and Black wide open...
...pensions for Federal veterans of the Civil and Spanish Wars, and voted (over the vetoes of Harding, Coolidge) an extra bonus, payable in 1945, to all honorably discharged men in the World War. The reason why U. S. pension figures are rising while those of other nations show a gradual decrease is because pensions in the U. S. are a political issue. Though the basic law regulating U. S. World War pensions was passed in 1917, it has since been subjected "to some 240 changes, the great majority being 'liberalizations' effected by political interference to create new bodies...
Although the women got nothing but publicity out of their parade to Congress, their propaganda and a gradual change in U. S. mores had produced local results throughout the land. Examples...
...strength of his personal charm, and the vast panorama of bustle which he conjured up, Mr. Roosevelt has been able to withhold the answer. We do not know whether he plans a reformed capitalism, a government purgation, as it were, of the excesses of capitalistic society, or a gradual accession to government ownership. The first would imply that the evils of capitalism are confined to its excesses; the second would imply that the evils of capitalism are in its essence. The first rests on the assumption that the producers can submit to control by the consumers, whose interest...
...realities of making a capitalist system work are given by the fact that labor has been denied its demand for representation on the committees which govern coded industries. As a sop the government may provide for boards of laborers and consumers to "observe." This is typical of the gradual way in which labor must be cased out of the picture, after having been put in with much idealistic fanfare...