Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Militarism, Miriam Beard's book ends inconclusively. The composite businessman who emerges from its cluster of facts is a puzzling figure. Not a severe critic, the author points out that in comparison with feudal lords and warriors, businessmen have been humane. They have robbed widows & orphans and sold rotten ships to their governments from the Punic to the Civil War, but they have not burned rival salesmen at the stake. A maniac might get to be a monarch, she says, but he could never run a factory. The gist of her argument is that businessmen's great failure...
...vitality. In far off Vermont, grey, bespectacled Governor George D. Aiken, who has been boomed by his New England neighbors as another budget-balancing Presidential possibility, took occasion to attack the party's present leadership and to demand, instead of a creed, an end to the age-old rotten borough representation of the South in Republican national conventions. To welcome Republican Chairman Hamilton when he arrived late in St. Louis from Washington, reporters asked him about such criticism as that of New Jersey's Robert W. Johnson (medical supplies). In no uncertain terms Mr. Johnson had called...
...great a Soviet statesman as Karakhan, should be liquidated left the world but two plausible hypotheses to choose from: either Stalin is madly destroying his best friends, or they, like Trotsky, have come to believe that Stalin has betrayed the Revolution. In any case something is very rotten in Russia...
...present situation honest economists do not make forecasts of business activity and if they do intelligent businessmen do not take them seriously. . . . This country is in thoroughly rotten shape. It is sick to the core with economic disorders and political diseases. In essence they are the result of more than 20 years of unsound economic policy and false economic thinking persistently pursued by both Government and the business community. . . . I believe we are now in a major depression which involves the possibility of a break-down of our economic and political organization. The chances are overwhelming that inflation will...
...Easley and I played golf. Place: Inside race course in heart of Shanghai. Time: Sunday, Sept. 26, 9.00 a.m. Par 35, 9 holes. Unusual hazards. Eight bombers over Pootung-bombs dropping-anti-aircraft gun fire, machine gun fire, screeching sirens of ambulances on Bubbling Well Road. Scores: Rotten...