Word: power
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwilling to split hairs with Mr. Ickes, but he persists in abusing facts so as to connect me falsely with power monopoly...
Captain Mahan gave Big Navy men the world over a sales talk wherewith to woo legislators and tax payers. He delved into the histories of nations from Rome to the U. S., came up with his theory that no nation ever became a world power or held its position without a Big Navy. This was a godsend to his contemporaries, who had to deal with the awful fact that so long as the U. S. was content to grow within its mainland boundaries, it did not need and would not have a Big Navy...
When Mahan's Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 appeared in 1890, British imperialists rated it an indispensable aid in wangling money from Parliament. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who was just beginning to swell, telegraphed to Journalist Poultney Bigelow: "I am just now not reading but devouring Captain Mahan's book. ... It is on board all my ships...
...week's lull in foreign excitement to bring out a twelve-point program for Business Recovery. Amounting to a platform nucleus for 1940, Joe Martin's planks included: "Keep the U. S. out of war"; curb spending; revise deterrent taxes; curtail the President's monetary powers (see p. 77); amend the Wagner Act; rehabilitate the railroads. A major effort by Joe Martin's House Republicans last week to discontinue the President's power to decrease further the dollar's gold content was defeated 225 to 158. >Received last week by many a Republican politico...
Changes. Not all of Adolf Hitler's birthdays since he came to power have been celebrated thus. In 1933, only three months after he first became Chancellor, the public birthday celebration was confined to the wearing of edelweiss, the Führer's favorite flower. The first birthday parade was held in 1935, but it was small compared to those yet to come and to that held last week...