Word: haves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Throughout the world the whole philosophy of individual liberty is under attack. In haste to bring under control the sweeping social forces unleashed ... by the World War, by the tremendous advances in productive technology during the last quarter century, by the failure to march with a growing sense of justice...
The issue, said he, was not whether abuses could be remedied, and new productive forces organized. It was whether the job could be done by free men. Through history the U. S. system of government, and the rights guaranteed by it, have been invaded by "economic agencies" on one hand...
Said Hoover of quick remedies: "I have no word of criticism but rather great sympathy for those who honestly search human experience and human thought for some easy way out, where human selfishness has no opportunities, where freedom requires no safeguards, where justice requires no striving. . . . Such dreams are not...
With the New Deal's emergency measures for recovery he would not quarrel. But because a nation's greatest moral, spiritual, economic and governmental change is involved in a shift in its fundamental social ideas, the big question remained: Does the New Deal represent such a shift? Said...
At 65, he looks younger than when he left the White House. He is red-faced, cherubic, and still wears the high collars, high shoes, the slightly pained and embarrassed smile that have always made him an easy target for cartoonists. His only political characteristic is that he smokes cigars...