Word: morass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nothing, of course, could be more futile than class discussions at their worst. The average section meeting, too often led by an inexperienced man, almost invariably ploughs laboriously and ineffectually in a circular direction through a morass of conflicting, ill-considered, irrelevant opinions. The failure of section meetings need, however, be no criterion of the probable success of class discussions; it does stand as a warning. To avoid fruitless expression of opinion on everything from communism to room rents in the Houses, the topic for discussion should be strictly defined. It should if possible be based on the study...
...whole the book is one of great merit. Many of its conclusions may well stand unchanged after future years have lifted the world out of the present morass. Because it constitutes a fine record, and an exposition of the history of 1931, and particularly on account of the underlying stress of the fact that the United States is vitally concerned in world affairs, and that our country must definitely trim its sails to the international wind currents, the authors of "World Affairs" have inaugurated a series of books that represent a distinct service...
...subject of European economic entanglements President Hoover found himself attacked from a new and unexpected quarter last week. Editor George Horace Lorimer of the staid Saturday Evening Post has been engaged in flaying the Administration for trying to "help people out of a morass by plunging into it with them." Said Editor Lorimer in the current issue: "Washington was right- meaning George Washington, not Washington, D. C. . . . Our international bankers have been babes in the Black Forest...
...state deepest bogged last week in a fiscal morass was Austria (see p. 23). Other governments painfully pinched for money by Depression were those of Newfoundland and Brazil (see below). But many a nation is not pinched. Last week Canada easily converted more than $600,- 000,000 worth of a series of Dominion bonds (totalling $1,084,800,000) into other series at impressive savings in the rates of interest. Fortnight ago Italy offered an internal loan of 4,000,000,000 lire ($210,000,000). Italian investors offered a total of 7,004,439,500 lire, a 75% oversubscription...
Significance. The Prime Minister, having promised nothing in fact, promised so much by implication-and this at a time when the Labor Cabinet has only an unsteady majority in the House of Commons-that observers saw Scot MacDonald plunging neck-deep last week into a morass of good intentions from which he can extricate himself and party only by a display of the highest statesmanship...