Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gilded Idea. More continuously than any other New Deal experiment, CCC has had the respect of foes as well as friends of Franklin Roosevelt. This is a striking fact, for unlike dozens of projects which Franklin Roosevelt has sponsored, CCC came not from the Brain Trust but from his own head. A good guess (by ex-Brain Truster Raymond Moley) is that it was planted there by Harvard's late, great Philosopher William James, who used to lecture Franklin Roosevelt & classmates on the morals...
...found their proper place in a complex new society. In the early 1930's he became known to U. S. physicians as an articulate apostle of socialized medicine. No man's arguments are read by either side of the socialized medicine controversy with greater respect...
...With respect to your general doctrine that a deficit will bring about business recovery, I call your attention to the fact that Mr. Hoover did very well in this matter. He had a deficit of $3,153,000,000 in 1932 preceded by a deficit of nearly a billion...
...American to say that Englishmen or Frenchmen should fight and die for causes which do not seem to them vital," he writes. Chief U. S. interest in the decisions reached at Munich should be the shift in Europe's balance of power, lessening respect for international law, lack of observance of treaties, collapse of the system of collective security. All in all, says Editor Armstrong, Mr. Chamberlain might better have adopted a motto implying reciprocity rather than appeasement...
...abroad directly challenge three institutions indispensable to Americans, now as always. The first is religion. It is the source of the other two - democracy and international good faith. Religion by teaching man his relationship to God gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors...