Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that since you have undertaken to compare these party platforms, you might do your readers and the country a great service by publishing both platforms in parallel columns...
...Parallel. To understand what was happening in Prussia and Germany last week, suppose the U. S. was composed of 17 instead of 48 states, of which one state, say New York, stretched from Maine to Montana and far into the South, and contained over 50% of the population, with a state police force only a little smaller than the regular Army. Suppose New York City was the capital of this state and of the nation and suppose that of the other 16 states only two were of any importance; a southern, Catholic, reactionary state, still talking Secession, representing Bavaria...
...compare the vague, indefinite suggestions of the Democratic candidate with the definite, logical, all-inclusive, constructive, non-partisan reconstruction program of Herbert Hoover. . . . The Democratic party has no plans nor policies of its own. . . . There is a deadly parallel between 75% of its platform and the words and policies of the Hoover Administration. . . . The Governor [said] : 'I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people.' Just what is this new deal...
...admit a parallel between yourself and Peter the Great...
Last week was not so dark but the picture was parallel. Gold withdrawals continued, came to $152,000,000 in ten days. Foreign exchanges remained above the point where it was profitable to export gold. Stocks were all at new lows, the bondmarket dropping in a manner terrifying to bankers, insurance companies and all investors. Then overnight there came a change in the domestic if not the international picture. Bonds soared and the stockmarket churned upwards after twelve weeks of almost steady declines...