Word: imperialist
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...year 1914 sounded the historic signal for basic change from the old bankrupt imperialist order to the new world socialist order." The year 1936 threatens the world with a repetition of 1914's imperialist war, but a repetition fundamentally conditioned by the further decay of capitalism and the rise of exploited classes and peoples. These are the principle theses about which R. Palme Dutt builds his striking review of the post...
Longtime tropical friends, both railroad and Fruit Company were given sway in Central America by the same man-the late, great imperialist, Minor Cooper Keith. In 1871 Keith went to the pestilential coast town of Limon in Costa Rica to build a railroad inland. In ten years he was $1,000,000 in the hole with 70 miles built and 4,000 men dead of malaria and yellow fever. To give the railroad something to haul he started to plant bananas at about the time people started eating them in the U. S. He finished that rail road, built others...
...anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed as Spanish in origin, on H. L. Mencken's authority, is the U. S. poker term ante...
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill also came out flat-footedly against continuing Sanctions. Cried that oldtime imperialist...
...George" Lansbury at His Majesty's Government. "If you can organize for that, you can organize to remove the causes and excuses for aggression. It is as easy to organize for construction as for destruction. That's all I am asking this government of the greatest imperialist power in the world to do. go to Geneva and start the organization of a world economic conference, where Germany, Japan, Italy and all the rest of them can state their case. They know it better than we do. And I hope that in such an enterprise we will...