Word: libertarianism
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...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...
...Cabinet still meets with the President each Friday. But the Cabinet does not make war. Attorney General Francis Biddle, the libertarian lawyer, gets close to the war only when his Justice Department prosecutes spies and saboteurs. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, once the moneybags of the war effort, had his wings clipped after the Rubber Scandal. Secretary of State Cordell Hull is still the good, grey man of international diplomacy, but the day of grey diplomacy has faded with Pearl Harbor. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard is close to the war effort, with his responsibility for feeding the United Nations...
Poll-Tax State. Liberals rushed to his defense. Among them was John F. Finerty, prominent corporation lawyer and civil-libertarian. Suave, greying, publicity-shy Mr. Finerty had fought in other causes: notably for Sacco & Vanzetti, Tom Mooney...
...stoical man who once smoked a cigaret while his right arm was amputated. Separated years ago from Mariquita's mother, Actress Josefina Blanco, he brought up two of their children -Mariquita and her brother Jaime - and instilled in them his own libertarian ideas...