Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William C. Aberhart, 64, Alberta's Social Credit Premier; of a liver ailment; in Vancouver, B.C. Ex-schoolteacher, fundamentalist radiorator, moonfaced "Bible Bill" Aberhart preached a new millennium, was elected to produce it in depression-ridden 1935. His version of Clifford Hugh Douglas' theories tried to combine funny money, state control of credit, a feeble application of the Keynes public-works principles, handouts à la Townsend. The attempt was foredoomed by Alberta's economic dependence, the hostility of courts and capital. One of the few non-Marxian reformers taken at his word and told...
...have been speaking the same language for the past 20 years. ... I have about come to the conclusion that the man I want is Harold L. Ickes of Chicago." "It was just like that," says Author Ickes, "and it wouldn't happen again in a millennium." At this point Harold Ickes regretfully robs the reader of the book's real climax - an account of his years in the Administration. While still "a member of President Roosevelt's official family," he explains, "it isn't altogether my fault that I cannot season this particular dish with mustard...
...Millennium. In Topeka, the Community Christmas Tree Committee decided not to erect the annual tree for the city's underprivileged children because there were practically no underprivileged children...
...nation will find this easy. Neither victory nor any form of post-war settlement will of itself create a millennium. Rather, we shall be offered an opportunity. The manifold tasks that lie ahead will not be accomplished overnight...
...already there is talk of 10,000,000 soldiers. And if the war drags on, perhaps 10% of U.S. citizens will be in the Army. The air forces might easily exceed the ground forces in that millennium. It began to seem, what with peeps, jeeps, tanks, motorizing generally, and sky troops transports, that on the way was the end of harching, hup! two, three, four...