Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whatever the difficulties abroad may be, relief does not sink to so low a scale. If we are going to preserve the self respect and sense of credit obligation of the unemployed in the United States, we must start now to prepare for the future by introducing unemployment insurance and supplementing it when necessary by regular financial assistance. The sooner the various states adopt unemployment insurance, the better...
Perhaps Cambridge has its attractions. Sophomoric rhapsodists can find much amusement in professors who tread hats and coats and the self respect of students with equal lack of fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present...
...operation with the next Congress . . . because he has broken the agreement which was at the base of the whole program. He has made a partisan thing out of a nonpartisan grant of power. . . . It was a dangerous experiment to grant these powers and only the most scrupulous respect for the trust which they implied could have justified their continuation...
...Daily Worker. The New York Herald-Tribune probably reflected preoccupied public opinion on the subject when it headlined its story on the pronouncement as "Red Riot at High Court"; Communist ballyhoo of the case excuses editors and public alike for confusing justice with Communist propaganda. In this respect the case threatens to equal the "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti...
...Daily Worker. The New York Herald-Tribune probably reflected preoccupied public opinion on the subject when it headlined its story on the pronouncement as "Red Riot at High Court"; Communist bally-hoo of the case excuses editors and public alike for confusing justice with Communist propaganda. In this respect the case threatens to equal the "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti...