Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt was not brought up by his mother with the idea that some day he would be President. "That was the last thing I should ever have imagined for him," Mrs. Roosevelt lately told interviewers.* "The highest ideal I could hold up before our boy was to grow to be like his father, straight and honorable, just and kind, an upstanding American." She shared her son's political successes only from a distance, never obtruding herself into his spotlight. The Hyde Park estate is legally hers until her death but she has made it a home...
...Mitchell is the ideal modern bank executive."-Carlton A. Shively, Financial Editor of the New York Sun, May 1929.* "Mitchell more than any 50 men is responsible for this stock crash."-U. S. Senator Carter Glass, November...
...must be sold either in saloons or State agencies and I don't think Congress ought to be committed to the policy that we're choosing permanently between those agencies. . . . The States have just as much ability to handle this question as Congress. . . . There is no ideal way of dealing with the liquor problem. We've been looking for such a way for almost a century and it has not been found. ... I have grave doubt in whatever form this amendment is submitted whether 36 States will ever ratify...
...ordered historical argument, whose headings tot up to a respectable "Individualist Manifesto," Kallen contends that present U. S. leaders "neither face nor understand" the present situation. Industrialism, depersonalizing human relations, "has aborted 'Americanism' as an ideal and has thwarted workers as individuals." Constitution-worship, Fascism, Communism spring not from hope but from fear. Since societies exist only by the consent of their members, a withdrawal of consent (as in the case of Prohibition) nullifies society's laws and purposes. The history of the U. S., thinks Kallen, "is the history of an unremitting warfare in behalf...
...Fish and his party can only counteract such diplomatic and economic considerations with vague fear and distrust of a nation with whose political composition they are not in agreement. With kings and emperors, with any other negations of the democratic ideal, Mr. Fish is not troubled. He might even, he says, consider recognition were Russia a socialist country. But with him the aged chimera of revolt obscures the definite and practical advantages of normal relations with a powerful political unit. The glory of maintaining such a prejudice as this is, as Mr. Fish may find, not a wholly unmixed...