Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, speculation and the illusion of prosperity may itself encourage an increase of consumption, giving business a genuine stimulus. And although Congress last summer rejected the idea of Capital Goods spending, the crisis had put into Franklin Roosevelt's hands the means of carrying it out in the name...
Died. Dr. Edward Alexander Wester-marck, 76, Finnish sociologist, a bachelor who was a world-famed authority on marriage ; in Lapinlahti, Finland. No medieval moralist, Dr. Westermarck championed the single standard for marriage, tilted against companionate marriage, polygamy, adultery, homosexuality. His concluding sentence in the first editions of The History...
Lenin during the Civil War, but Lenin and Trotsky together were too smart for him. In Author Souvarine's sober account of these years following the revolution, the predicament of Lenin stands out painfully: plunged by his own victory into a chaos which compelled him to backtrack step by...
General Secretary of the Communist Party, Stalin constructed under him a bureaucracy of secretaries, "a hierarchy of secretaries, a psychology of secretaries." For that and for the ruthless use of the secret police his talents sufficed, says Souvarine, for the wise reconstruction and administration of Russia they were pitiful in...
Rimbaud was brought up by a tight-fisted mother who was open-handed only with her slaps. Until he was 15, she took him to school every day so that he would not tarry with naughty schoolmates. During the dislocations of the Franco-Prussian War, Rimbaud, who was already writing...