Word: pettishness
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Dates: during 1919-1919
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...Jenkins, and leaves the "laws of economics" and the politicians to punish the guilty ones and meet the future. It allows the "laws of economics" to set prices; it discovers that Mr. Hoover can set prices better than the "laws of economics"; it dismisses Mr. Hoover, and like a pettish child disposes of its railroads because, forsooth, it has not learned to run them. And this is the amorphous djinn to which we believers in democracy cheerfully trust our salvation...