Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have the complete chain. The cotton-growing South, with more money to spend, buys new automobiles. The automobile makers buy more cotton goods from manufacturers in the Northeast and these manufacturers in turn go into the market for more cotton. . . . "Lifting prices on the farm up to the level where the farmer and his family can live is opposed chiefly by the few who profited heavily from the Depression. It is they and their henchmen who are doing their best to foment city people against the farmer and the farm program. It is that type of political profiteer who seeks...
...across a bar in 28 States and the District of Columbia. Only one State is wholly dry-Alabama. The Federal Government had during the past fiscal year taken in $411,000,000 in liquor taxes. The States had collected many millions more. Consumption was only 70% of the 1917 level, and while 324 cities reported 23,683 arrests for drunken driving last year, the total was below the 1928-31 average. That the nation definitely had its back turned on Prohibition sentiment was evident at the 28th annual meeting of the Anti-Saloon League of America in St. Louis...
...Those who think Socialism can be strengthened by material leveling of the people on a low level are wrong. This is a petty bourgeois concept of Socialism. Socialism can only be victorious on the basis of high labor productivity-and higher than Capitalism-on the basis of abundance of products and all consumers' articles, on the basis of a plentiful and cultural life for all members of society...
...Socialism to achieve this goal and make our society richer the country must have a level of labor productivity that exceeds that of the foremost Capitalist countries. The Stakhanov movement is such a movement. It opens up new prospects for the practical strengthening of Socialism in our country and for turning it into the (world's) most affluent land.'' Communism at Last? The main smash of Stalin's remarks on Stakhanovism was intelligible only if one realizes that the Soviet Union has never been Communist, is not now Communist, but hopes some day to become Communist...
...enable themselves to go on living in the style to which a Prussian officer is accustomed. At length, after a second excited Cabinet scene, Catholic Hitler threw up his hands and, with the German Old Guard concurring, decreed the law in its original form, debasing Jews to the level of criminals and imbeciles in Germany, but going easy on part-Jews...