Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offered him an occasion, reeking with history, to hang a large historical backdrop behind the little political maneuvers of this trip. He did so with one of his analogies between the old frontier of ''new land, new game, new opportunity" and the F. D. R. frontier of social and economic security. Said...
...record, was: 1) the Legion enrolls less than one-fourth of the 4,000,000-odd U. S. World War veterans, 2) it is undemocratically controlled by a small hierarchy of officials, 3) Legion leaders "have come from a class in American society which has profited from existing social and economic arrangements," 4) chief activity of the Legion is fighting "subversive elements" and it has sponsored teaching of chauvinistic patriotism in the schools, 5) Capitalistic and militaristic, the Legion confuses "the middle class concerning its real interests," is "a potential force in the direction of fascism...
...learn French by formal methods in the U. S. than by talking with Frenchmen in Paris, for a boy who learns by the second method "has had no more mental discipline than a little street Arab in a foreign town." Still stanchly Tory, he sums up his social views: "Truly the future has less to fear from individual than from cooperative selfishness...
...Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, joined the liberal group of Paul V. Shields. Edward Allen Pierce and John W. Hanes soon after he bought an Exchange seat in 1931, has since lived quietly at Manhattan's Yale Club, studied steadily at the New School for Social Research. When the reform group gained control of the reorganized Exchange this spring. Bill Martin was elected chairman of the board of governors (TIME, May 23). He immediately won a friendly press, made a hit with SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. After considering some 200 "big names," the board of governors came...
...visited the U. S. He traveled from Green Bay, Wis. to New Orleans, taking notes, talking to bankers, doctors, governors, plain citizens, spent nine months gathering material for a book which required four years to write. In this 852-page study, Author Pierson has carefully retraced the journey, pictured social conditions of the time, shown the source of Tocqueville's opinions, combined them with biographies of both men. Although Author Pierson accuses Tocqueville of missing the significance of the abolition movement and underestimating the power of a plutocracy, his book makes Tocqueville's observations seem extraordinary, Tocqueville...