Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the first drawing in their new National Lottery last month (TIME, July 31) Frenchmen discovered the disadvantage of being a winner. False friends swarmed on them. Old friends grew cold with envy. Neighbors called them stingy if they did not immediately step up their scale of living. Worst of all, they were obliged to buy everybody drinks, drinks, drinks...
...bogey, declared a fascist dictatorship, the Socialists had not one revolutionary kick left in them. They did not even attempt a general strike; they merely acquiesced. This was partially due to Dollfuss' cleverness in declaring the dictatorship to stop the Nazis, pet hate of all Marxists. Moving one small step at a time he has not offered the Socialists a sufficient pretext to declare a general strike, yet he has succeeded in gradually hamstringing them by taking away their surplus and by slowly abolishing their major taxes. No blow has been struck, but the Socialist Party may now be considered...
...aside from the financial one, is to provide instruction and competition for accomplished athletes. There ought, accordingly, to be a revision of the present unjust arrangement which permits a man to go without reward even though he has participated in all the games but that with Yale. Such a step is particularly necessary in those sports which do not permit of extensive last minute substitution; also, in the case of men who are kept from the final encounter by illness, greater latitude in making the award should be permitted. Such changes would be a step toward a saner system...
...lynchings are a conviction of the legal system under which they exist. Unless the lawyers of the country shake off their professional squeamishness against change the stage will be set for ku kluxers, vigilantes, and "crazed mobs" to step into the breach...
...this is exceedingly unfortunate, for the Securities Act was a sound and progressive step in government regulation of finance excesses. It was well designed to prevent a repetition of the large scale gulling of any ignorant public which occurred in the roaring 'twenties. With a reasonably conservative interpretation by the courts, there is absolutely nothing that honest banking houses and directors need fear...