Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banish aircraft stocks from the market. An industry that has to be subsidized by the government shouldn't be allowed to become speculator's material, and the industry certainly cannot support itself without government aid. Of course the ideal thing to do is to consolidate the military, naval, and commercial branches all under one head, and thus get things done efficiently. The President, I believe, could do this any time he saw fit, and I shouldn't be at all surprised to see it happen...
Well, it was extremely funny, wasn't it -- about as hilarious as a Nazi Jew flogging would be. Unquestionably, nothing is so diverting as brutally to mistreat a group of earnest, serious men who are giving their time and services in the cause of a humanitarian ideal. On the other hand it requires very little courage to heckle and boo and pelt grapefruit from the comforting security of the crowd, and clowning always draws approbation. The next logical step would be to overturn the hearse at a funeral amid shouts of laughter...
There is a group of carefree young men in our midst for whom the consideration for one moment of a serious thought would be an ennui too great to be borne. For such, anything so hopelessly antediluvian as an ideal is excruciatingly funny. Well, gentlemen, it is not without the bounds of possibility for this tremendous joke to turn into a poetically just and ghastly ironic nightmare. If the country's future is to be guided by the harebrains which Friday's farce disclosed--God help the country. Sedgwick Mead...
...emerging, or it does not. Though N. R. A. is imperfect, it at least furnished a step in the direction of a better-organized society, wherein wealth might be more equitably distributed, and no man beaten before the starts. To abandon that goal is to forsake an ideal that gave promise of realization and to betray the trust of the American people...
...about like gas? . . . To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife. . . . The death of a Turkish bridge or rail, machine or gun, or high explosive was more profitable to us than the death of a Turk. . . . We could not afford casualties. . . . Our ideal was to keep his railways just working, but only just, with the maximum of loss and discomfort to him. . . . We used the smallest force in the quickest time at the farthest place...