Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vandenberg on Social Security revision, Hatch on politics-in-Relief. A fight, hot and early, was promised over a bill which Democrat King of Utah filed, calling for the dissolution of WPA in 90 days and the return of Relief, still federally financed, to the States. Leaders of a movement to continue WPA but earmark its appropriations in Congress (contrary to President Roosevelt's wish), will be South Carolina's Byrnes and Montana's Murray, hitherto Administration...
Famed California Convict Thomas Joseph Mooney, anticipating a full pardon by Governor Culbert Olson (due about January 15), made plans for the future after almost 22 years in prison: "My long-range work after I get out of prison will be to seek unity for the labor movement-a progressive unity that looks to the future instead of the past. ... I am sure that by living cautiously I can live another quarter century. I have no doubts about my ability to withstand the mental strain of release. My heart and mind have never been confined to prison walls...
...situation which gave rise to this demagogic, ignorant, desperate movement was inherent in the German Republic's birth and in the craving of large sections of the politically immature German people for strong, masterful leadership. Democracy in Germany was conceived in the womb of military defeat. It was the Republic which put its signature (unwillingly) to the humiliating Versailles Treaty, a brand of shame which it never lived down in German minds...
...elections of 1928 it polled 809,000 votes. Two years later 6,401,016 Germans voted for National Socialist deputies, while in 1932 the vote was 13,732,779. While still short of a majority, the vote was nevertheless impressive proof of the power of the man and his movement...
...ecstatically by most Germans. He lifted the nation from post-War defeatism. Under the swastika Germany was unified. His was no ordinary dictatorship, but rather one of great energy and magnificent planning. The "socialist" part of National Socialism might be scoffed at by hard-&-fast Marxists, but the Nazi movement nevertheless had a mass basis. The 1,500 miles of magnificent highways built, schemes for cheap cars and simple workers' benefits, grandiose plans for rebuilding German cities made Germans burst with pride. Germans might eat many substitute foods or wear ersatz clothes but they did eat. What Adolf Hitler...