Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...19th Century world of individual enterprise! I tell you Democracy is only a mask for Capitalism, which clings desperately to the outmoded forms that allowed it free play. "The era of Capitalism is over! Here in Italy it is finished, it is dead.* If by democracy you mean government for and in the interests of the people then our system and ours alone is truly democratic...
...hundred dollars would mean a great deal to many instructors and graduate students. Although the total amount is small, college authorities might be tempted to raise the bugbear of expense. "The Crimson," recognizing that the plan will present several difficulties and will necessitate the expenditure of several thousand dollars, is nevertheless convinced that the plan should be tried as an experiment for one or two years. It believes that any other course is short-sighted and that the educational and economic loss of the present system to the college is equaled only by the loss to the students. Today...
...Pacifist Carl von Ossietzky (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.), who only last week succeeded in getting assurance that the Reich would not confiscate his $40,000 prize. *To this 100% ambiguous statement, mildly uttered, Der Führer may at any time characteristically revert with angry vigor, making it mean then that Germany "claims" the colonies now under the British, French and other League Mandates "taken away from her after the World War," but such was not the meaning his amicable tone conveyed last week. †Reichsbank President Schacht, Foreign Minister von Neurath, Finance Minister von Krosigk, Chief of Staff...
...Parliament to enact a Regency Bill under which, in case of "the demise of the Crown," the next member of the Royal Family in line for the Throne, "excluding minors" (i.e., excepting Princess Elizabeth, 10, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose, 6), should automatically become the Regent. This would mean that the death of King George would make his brother the Duke of Gloucester the sole Regent. This was a great surprise, for it had been expected that strong-minded Queen Elizabeth and strong-minded Queen Mother Mary would sit with the Duke of Gloucester and possibly also the Duke...
Meantime in Wall Street the franc's turn for the worse intensified the current jitters over the outlook for U. S. money rates. Another boost in bank reserve requirements to sop up potential credit had been expected for months. That the move would mean a reversal in the long downward trend of interest rates was by no means a remote possibility, and bond prices accordingly tumbled...