Word: napoleonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insane to think that the time to oppose the Germans-if we ever are going to-is when they land armed forces in this hemisphere. If things go on as they have been for the last three years, the Germans will never have to land a man. Even Napoleon had to admit, in the end, that ideas are all-powerful, and the ideas of Nazidom are penetrating throughout South America. They have the prestige of success, and the democracies offer -well, what do they offer...
...hoof of Marengo, Napoleon's Arab charger, matched by a hoof of Wellington's Arundel...
...Napoleon and Human Nature
...Napoleon Bonaparte, who needed great soldiers, was firmly convinced that a man would walk through hell for a ribbon to wear on his chest. So French soldiers are among the most decorated fighting men in the world. Finding that Napoleon had judged human nature right, France now gives 25 kinds of civilian decorations,* medals (and lapel ribbons) for rearing big families, turning out a good beet crop, running a business-like prison, doing an average job of teaching school (about half of all French teachers have the Palmes Académiques), putting out fires, collecting taxes...
...analogy the U. S. should long ago have begun distributing decorations to those responsible for most great American accomplishments: businessmen. Now particularly, if Napoleon was right, the U. S. needs great businessmen to combat depression and unemployment. But last week, it was France, not the U. S., which instituted a new decoration: the eight-pointed star of the Order of Commercial Merit, for doers of great business deeds...