Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a pat all-explanatory word. Stalin's mechanical-toy enunciation of "capitalism" as the fundamental basis is, to put it mildly, nothing but arrant nonsense. The causes are fundamentally economic; the Soviet has goods to sell and exploitation schemes to promote, and so has Japan. Imperialism can not longer be associated, Marxist fashion, with so-called capitalist countries alone...
...study of these questions, of which this book is the result, was started some years ago as a purely theoretical investigation, before the Treasury deficit became a matter of immediate and universal concern. This longer period of time has permitted the author to give due consideration to the entire field, without being overwhelmed by the urgency of any immediate problem; an unbiased treatment of the subject is accordingly assured...
...have to withdraw our uncompromising snobbery; they must be judged of themselves, not for their parenthood. President Roosevelt deserves the greatest credit for showing politicians of the most successful variety a way of extending indefinitely and forever the scope of honest and intelligent administration in government. Give your friends longer and better jobs; insure that when they die off they will be replaced by their betters...
...excited political circles talk was veering around from the urgent rumors fortnight ago that "Bumbler Baldwin" could not much longer remain Prime Minister, to the opposite notion that the Arms Boom is creating an elated situation in which, no matter what he does or says, he will be as popular as Herbert Hoover...
...Gandhi to Stalin to Ramsay MacDonald, for the Daily News. Finally he was given the coveted London post, held it for four years, resigned because the News considered his viewpoint had become too Anglicized. Back again in the U. S., with a 21-year career behind him, and no longer quite so "naïve and fresh and full of rage and energy" as he was, Negley Farson still looked forward with a keenly optimistic, amiable, but less rowdy...