Word: libertarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders of Naziism had undoubtedly conspired for aggressive war, and had then waged it according to horrendously detailed plans. But the prosecution's premise-the responsibility, of comparatively few-was all too familiar. In the years when Mussolini and Hitler were rising, just such theories had led the libertarian world to dismiss Fascism and Naziism as the work of a few bullyboys...
...supreme court justice, two newspapermen, two former university professors and two student leaders-came a story of trouble in Tacho's domain. It had all started when Somoza's National Guardsmen charged and clubbed thousands of Nicaraguans who had turned out to welcome Chile's visiting libertarian President Juan Antonio Rios...
...girl telling him that she has a room with running water ("You better get rid of dat Indian!"). Lou Clayton, who is not given to sentimentality, describes Jimmy as "the sweetest god damned guy that ever lived." And, as his every accent suggests, Jimmy is a considerable democrat and libertarian. In 1938, when he heard of a campaign to clean up his beloved Broadway, Jimmy exploded...
...history. To those who have attacked him for reducing history to the level of the human belly he has said, in effect: "See here, I called my book an economic interpretation. I have never believed that history is solely a matter of economics, for there can be ecological, juridical, libertarian, moral, religious, philosophical and idealist interpretations. What is the harm in knowing how much real estate George Washington possessed? And why not admit that Robert Morris was an iron manufacturer and a West Indian trader? If we know these facts, and others like them, we can begin to understand...
Then, -for pigeonholing his application, the Bar Association found itself under indictment by an angry grand jury of its own members. Led by the libertarian Arthur Garfield Hays, the indicters denounced the tabling of the application as "indistinguishable from the racial doctrines of Hitlerism." Several of the members, including Hays, resigned in protest...