Word: opportunisme
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To celebrate the fifth anniversary, the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party in Russia issued a manifesto "to all workers and toilers." The manifesto was described as being "rather a tame document." It points out that the Internationale has grown from small beginnings to a "world force before which...
Unless "stabilizing methods" had been employed, varying from the picturesque operations and announcements of Mr. Livermore (TIME, Nov. 12) to the steel extra dividend (TIME, Nov. 12) and kindred occurrences, business would probably have deteriorated until this Spring, have been dull all Summer and started up in the Fall. The...
Modern statesmen, too, who compare so unfavorably with those magnificent of a former day, Disraeli and Gladstone, are, for the most part, incapacitated by the Victorianism of their training for the efficient management of the modern world. The crop of discord, war, hate, and international rivalry which the ill-timed...
"Too much opportunism has crept into the system of the body politic of today and in one form or another the human beings of today are demonstrating the old brutal principle of might is right. By force we are trying to establish peace. By deception we except to establish credit...
Not shortsightedness alone, nor political opportunism, is responsible for the STANDING ROOM ONLY sign upon the nation's schoolhouse door. Prosperity has released a host of wage-earners of school age. When ends meet easily at home children are packed off to school and kept there.