Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation that bases its entire political structure on a shifting and complex mass of minor parties, any coordinated government becomes a highly dubious proposition. France is the home of such small fry. Its National Assembly is composed of every political shade from rabid red to gouty blue. M. Schuman must compose these squabbling factions if he even dreams of a successful regime. His only real hope lies in the tremendous mandate of 412 votes to 184 awarded him by the Assembly...
...computing income tax, the Wall Street Journal pungently commented: "The hate of the Marxians ... for advertising is no mere whim. If you believe that the purpose of making and selling things is to furnish people what they choose to have, advertising appears useful. . . . But if you believe that the mass of consumers are subhuman, bound to do something foolish and destructive if left to themselves . . . advertising is a terrible thing. It is likely to cause people to want something and [that] may be troublesome to the higher authority...
Every conceivable mode of transportation but the page stick will take part in the mass exodus of Crimson students today and tomorrow morning for the Yale gridiron battleground at New Haven, Connecticut...
Somewhere amid the mass of publicity, documents, and delegates that have accumulated along with the inception of the National Students Association, something got lost. This was the list of answers to those who want to know the what-good-is-it and the why-vote-for-it of NSA. A reconstruction of that list is necessary. Without it, NSA may not receive the strong majority on the ballots today and tomorrow that is needed to convince the Student Council that undergraduate backing warrants ratification...
...make it. Mr. Truman demonstrated yesterday that he intends to make it something positive and vital. He demonstrated furthermore, that he realizes that he source of his power lies in his ability to capture the imagination and serve as a focal point for the aspirations of the great mass of the people. Said the President, "I am confident that the Congress, guided by the will of the people, will take the right course on this occasion." With the people the President is everything. Without them he is nothing...