Word: hottentot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not say the standards of morals. . . . When one speaks of raising the standards of living, one means clearly and simply that laundry will be more pleasant, and dishwashing and vacuum-cleaning will be easier on the housewife, plus perhaps a quart of milk a day for the Hottentot. One means less hand labor. One means having a car and seeing a movie once a week...
...declared that increased production in other countries will not reduce living standards in the United States. Those twisters of fact who shriek that your Vice President is a wild-eyed dreamer trying to set up TVA's on the Danube and deliver a bottle of milk to every Hottentot every morning should read that report...
...primary requisite is that money remain relatively stable over long periods of time, periods long enough to work out the international capital investments that world economy needs much more than it needs an international exchange of consumer goods. Given these conditions for investment, every Hottentot can have a skinful of milk a day if he wants it, provided U.S. ingenuity can find something for the Hottentot to produce that others want, and can stake him to the tools the work requires. The U.S., often doubtful in recent years whether it was really a capitalist nation, has arrived at a position...
Ever since Vice President Henry Agard Wallace made his first major speech on post-war problems last May, critics have tried to make him sound like a starry-eyed global godfather whose only interest was a quart of milk for every Hottentot. Last week gentle Henry Wallace, using harsher language than he likes, struck back with some telling blows-and managed to bring out some of the simple elements of national self-interest in his program...
...problem the old guard of the N.A.M. failed even to face. The tone was set when retiring President William P. Witherow delivered a confusing tirade against the already confused ideas of Henry J. Wallace. Cried Mr. Witherow: "I am not righting for a quart of milk for every Hottentot, or for a TVA on the Danube. ... I am not making tanks or guns to help a people's revolution ... I am making armament to help our boys save America...