Word: processes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest cinematic March of Time is an excellent sop to U. S. ignorance of Mexican affairs. Even U. S. Catholics, if they are candid, will admit that ecclesiastical control in Mexico has not been an unmixed blessing. The disestablishment of a church is a painful process in any country but is that any reason for presenting only the most lurid details, without any attempt at historical analysis? Give the Revolutionary Government of Mexico...
...increase as years go on. No new industry can take advantage of the idle labor force because of the prohibitive tax rate, and a collapse is inevitable. Then who will feed the workers, and who will pay the cities' defaulted obligations? The "transfer" of capital and labor is a process depending upon the mobility of the capital and labor force. The removal of several good sized cities will take a long time, and the shorter the time, the greater the pain of adjustment. In the south, if a mill closes, the operatives go back to the farm in the hills...
...people of the U. S. formally abolished slavery. On July 28, 1868 they granted citizenship to all natives and naturalized persons, guaranteed due process of law for every citizen, disqualified for Federal office Confederate leaders who had broken their oath to support the Constitution. On March 30, 1870 they clinched the franchise for Negroes. These acts were the proclamations of Johnson's Secretary of State William Henry Seward and Grant's Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, three-fourths of the States having notified the Secretary in each instance that they had ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments...
...Versailles] adopted by the German Government, at a moment when steps were being taken to promote a freely negotiated settlement of the question of armaments, had undermined public confidence in security of a peaceful order. Moreover the magnitude of the declared program of German rearmament, already well in the process of execution, had invalidated the quantitative assumptions on which efforts for disarmament had heretofore been based...
...whole never had the feeling that it was fighting for its life; it has not had that feeling since the 1860's. But such an experience, as most Europeans know, takes more than one or two generations to digest. The U. S. is still in process of making up its mind about its Civil...