Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston last month Senator Byrd expounded his worries about spending which he blamed on the "crackpot" .theories of Marriner Stoddard Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. This week Chairman Eccles, a banker who favors pump-priming within limits, answered by a letter which he gave to the press, lecturing Critic Byrd and the nation on "the pertinent facts" about the Budget, Taxes, Debt...
...hrer Hitler does not regard himself as a revolutionary; he has become so only by force of circumstances. Fascism has discovered that freedom?of press, speech, assembly?is a potential danger to its own security. In Fascist phraseology democracy is often coupled with Communism. The Fascist battle against freedom is often carried forward under the false slogan of "Down with Communism!" One of the chief German complaints against democratic Czechoslovakia last summer was that it was an "outpost of Communism...
...cracking. Nor were signs lacking that many Germans disliked the cruelties of their Government, but were afraid to protest them. Having a hard time to provide enough bread to go round, Führer Hitler was being driven to give the German people another diverting circus. The Nazi controlled press, jumping the rope at the count of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, shrieked insults at real and imagined enemies. And the pace of the German dictatorship quickened as more & more guns rolled from factories and little more butter was produced...
...biggest shows in the land of the free this year will be at Flushing, L. I. and on San Francisco Bay. To stage them businessmen have dug down for millions of dollars, politicians have played their cards, engineers have sweated, architects have dreamed, press agents have run wild, artists have cried aloud. Located smack in the centres of the two greatest metropolitan areas in the U. .S., each will choke its already surfeited neighborhood with milling millions of citizens out for a good time. To each will come travelers seeking knowledge of the world and its wonders. So runs...
...EDVARD GRIEG-David Monrad-Johansen- Princeton University Press...