Word: happens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blasting the Superstructure. Moulton ridicules the theory that public spending can so increase the national income that taxes will increase to the point where the budget can be balanced. How come, asks Moulton, that this is just what does not happen in war, where national income rises sharply but taxes lag far behind? The war, thinks Moulton, proves not the benefits of public spending (as Hansen argues) but all its inflationary difficulties and collectivist consequences...
...Plainly a community may not suppress, or the state tax, the dissemination of views which are unpopular, annoying or distasteful. If that device were ever sanctioned there would have been forged a ready instrument for the suppression of the faith which any minority cherishes but which does not happen to be in favor. That would be a complete repudiation of the philosophy of the Bill of Rights...
...composer in particular, mainly because he wrote so much music that is not suited to present-day mediums of performances, has been the transcriber's prize scapegoat. Johann Sebastian Bach has suffered more at the hands of conductors and who-knows-whats than should happen to even a composer. The Brandenburg Concerti, for example, are written for small groups of string instruments, yet they have been presented, as is also the case with the Corelli Suite for Strings, with entire symphony or chestra string sections. It is true that the music had been transcribed. What that nasty word seems...
...armored division, operating as a unit, there may still be many a job to do. When the Allied invasion of Europe unfolds full scale, fast armored divisions may be able to fan out over great stretches of terrain, chewing up opposing infantry and communications. But even that can happen only after Allied infantry has disposed of the German anti-tank artillery, which is poison to spearheads of tanks...
...Senator Wheeler doesn't think that Congress should let the Army decide whether it needs to draft fathers for the service. Like Herbert Hoover, the Senator isn't too anxious to invade Europe to reach the Nazis. After all, Japan is our first enemy, and, moreover, Japan doesn't happen to be fighting Russia. After we defeat the Japs, well--the United Nations might decide to negotiate a peace with Hitler...