Word: power
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...produced for generations, and a terrific disciplinarian. . . . Chiang is the symbol, the personification, the cement, of Chinese unity and resistance against Japan." The famous and thoroughly publicized, U. S.-educated Soong family-three sisters, three brothers, two brothers-in-law-represents "one of the most striking agglutinations of personal power in the world." Soong Meiling, Mme Chiang Kaishek, the "most brilliant of the three sisters," is the "second most powerful personage in China," i.e., after her husband. Warily Author Gunther halfway predicts a long stalemate in the war, the Japanese trying merely to hold what they have. "But they must...
Three years ago Dorothy Thompson had won some fame as a foreign correspondent, most of it confined to her professional colleagues. Her book on Hitler was best known for its flat statement that he would never come to power ("Oh, Adolf! Adolf! You will be out of luck"), and her book on Russia was best known as the inspiration for Sinclair Lewis's renowned brawl with Theodore Dreiser, whom he accused of plagiarizing it. She had written a few articles for The Saturday Evening Post and was considered an intelligent journalist, but she was a reporter and no pundit...
...injustice and disorder of our times comes from the fact that individuals and groups have gratified their appetites by instruments of political power. . . . I do not think . . . that this country would produce a higher general level of physical and economic well being if it were governed by trade unions monopolizing the political power, than it is when governed by the owning classes monopolizing political power...
...judge any program by whether I think it tends to distribute power and bring about equilibrium, whether it tends to destroy privilege, whether it subjects itself to reason and measures itself by criteria-the chief criterion in the economic field being the release of productive energy. My program, which is the program of a journalist, and not the program of a person with any political ambitions whatsoever, is to try to make more people think along these lines...
Another man of God, in like case, wrote: "When, three weeks ago, I was living through the first long Sunday . . . I read the letters of the New Testament which were written in prison. There is joy and power...