Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressman John J. O'Connor (see p. 72). He cried: "Shall we engage in political activities? My fellow delegates, we are in political activities!'' Whereupon the convention offered its support to Franklin Roosevelt for a third term if he wants one and resolved: "Bread and Progress are of greater concern to us and to the American people as a whole than so-called traditions...
Mourned Chief of Staff Malin Craig who had recommended the promotion of squatable Oscar Westover to Chief of Air Corps in 1935: "More than any other individual . . . he has been responsible for the phenomenal progress of his branch...
...only has Breuer been working on his own creations, but he has been cooperating with Walter Gropius on several buildings now in progress of construction in the East. On a table is a model of one such house being built at Cohasset, Massachusetts, a building perfectly adapted for use as a summer home and for its location looking out over the ocean...
...Republican party while the Democrats are allowing them to rust. But paragraphs such as the following tend to make one doubt his close application to the study of morals as a science and suspect that there may be willy-nilly a touch of politics in his utterance: "The progress of mankind is in proportion to the advancement of truth and justice. These standards are fundamentally what we call morals. It is moral standards in government which sustain democracy itself...
Frequent and widespread has been the expression of contempt for the blundering and faltering progress of the democracies in the present crisis. In history's most gigantic poker game, Hitler plays a winning hand because he has the confidence of a nation behind him, while Chamberlain and Daladier feel the depressing and distracting pull of public opinion. With French Communists threatening to strike rather than submit to national defense measures and British opposition flaring against the Cabinet's City policies, the Reich stands firm and united. Seemingly Fascism has once more demonstrated its ability to outmaneuver democracy because...