Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard-headed Charlie Taft scoffs at the idea of a U. S. autocracy or Fascism. To him Al Smith, Mark Sullivan and Republican alarmists who proclaim the New Deal's march toward dictatorship are simply shadow-boxing with political phantasmagoria of their own making. As for Franklin Roosevelt's broken campaign promises of 1932, he asserts that any politician who maintains complete consistency "assumes his own infallibility and will destroy his country if he stays in power." An invitation to him to deliver a Lincoln's Birthday address last winter was promptly withdrawn after a brief statement...
...Dakotas, Georgia, Missouri. Resettler Tugwell made a quick tour of the Northwest, chatted with farmers, gloomily announced that half the population of the cattle-grazing Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming would require government aid to get through next winter. Of the cost, he said, he had not the faintest idea. His Resettlement Administration last week received $3,000,000 monthly for development of lands already being purchased by the Government...
...Harlow to call surprised Mr. Gerofsky. Last week the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. arrived at a satisfactory settlement of its suit to make disgusted Mr. Gerofsky pay $20.35 for the long-distance call. Said Furnace Boy Duggan: "Gee, I'm sorry, Mr. Gerofsky. It was just an idea I had and I guess it wasn't so good...
...wheel of the trim little schooner Sewanna, the best yachtsman the nation ever had for President put out from Pulpit Harbor, Me. early last week with Sons James, John and Franklin Jr. for shipmates, a crew of two. "I haven't the faintest idea where I'm going, except to work to the east'ard," he told newshawks before casting off. "I'm just going to loaf and have a good time...
What followed was a Counts pronouncement of the kind which makes Mr. Hearst and his fellows see Red. Broad in idea, general in language, its theme was "economic democracy." which Professor Counts has so far failed to reduce to concrete proposals. Excerpts...