Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Coyle is against both economizing in a small way and centralizing in a big way. On centralization, he says: "We should remember the mighty race of dinosaurs that thundered across the earth, with their vast bulk, armor-plated hides, long teeth and peanut brains. When the climate changed they had no ideas....The best we can hope is to have as little big business as possible, and to keep the disadvantages of bigness as small as possible...." So New Dealer Coyle favors Government regulation of bigness by yardsticks, taxes, control of money, discouragement of too much capital investment...
Proprietor Steve Vasilakos of the peanut stand at the White House gates, addressing a group of customers, declared: "Look, all the world is yelling and pushing at each other except here. Here is peace and no fuss. . . . Over there, there are guns. Here there ain't no guns. Here there's squirrels on the lawn...
...great dissenter for the common man is unchallenged. Six days a week, for an estimated $65,000 a year, in 116 papers reaching nearly 6,000,000 readers, Mister Pegler is invariably irritated, inexhaustibly scornful. Unhampered by coordinated convictions of his own, Pegler applies himself to presidents and peanut vendors with equal zeal and skill. Dissension is his philosophy...
...Samuel Hoare sat in the peanut gallery draped in blue satin, as though forgetfully he had worn his spouse's negligee to the Abbey...
Mexico's Roosevelt- The proud racial characteristics of a Tarascan Indian are a peanut-shaped head, thick lips and a compact physique of great physical endurance. All these belong to Lázaro Cárdenas who is of Tarascan descent. He loves to visit the remote villages and scattered hovels of his own people, the "Indians" whom he is busy raising to the status of ''Mexicans,"likes to say: "We want fewer Indians and more Mexicans!" For them he has a Six-Year Plan or "Mexican New Deal...