Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Works Agency would merge Works Progress Administration and Public Works Administration (both independent), the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Public Roads, the public buildings branches of the Treasury's Procurement Division and of the National Park Service (now Interior) ; also the U. S. Housing Authority (Interior...
...Album will withal maintain its essential dignity," stated Robert M. Banker, Album Committee Chairman. According to Bunker, a new feature of the Album, will be the institution of more general articles, one on the history of the class by Frank P. Davidson and William N. Chambers, one on the progress which education has made at Harvard in the last four years, one by Cleveland Amory on the four years athletic record of the Class of '39, and one on the House plan by Richard H. Finn...
...DEMOCRACY WORKS" is written for this decisive decade of the Twentieth Century when immediate utility is the prime concern of governments and the simple mechanism of the totalitarian state has lured many nations from the "muddling progress" of democracy. Arthur Garfield Hays reaffirms his faith in our system. It works not because it fits a "philosophical blueprint," but because through selection and adoption it is responsive not to any one but to all pressure groups. Though not of lasting importance and lacking in polish, his book is full of hope and thoroughly convincing at a time when people need conviction...
...ideas and making use of them to fit into the framework of existing institutions. It is far more workable than any totalitarian government because it follows no rules except to respond to what the people want. The most exciting chapters of his book though the most sketchy, outline our progress in such fields as labor, agriculture, industry, science and invention. Mr. Hays proves conclusively that in America, at least, democracy has worked...
Hays is most interested in our advance towards a socialism, achieved not by sudden revolution, but slow realization of its practicality. "Socialism in just democracy--an extension of government function made necessary by conditions under which we live a progress that has gone on for generations." Change comes about when these reforms fit into the social structure. Many of the "radical" measures of the Communist Manifesto of 1848 have become part of our lives after separation from their "ism" tag. Public regulation of schools, recreational centers, agriculture or business, once considered "dangerous," is now an accepted government function, and public...