Word: stress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made in the public interest. It would also, of course, with equal justice, cast upon the Government the loss of such dollar value if the public interest in the future should require an increase in the amount of gold designated as a dollar. . . . "Permit me once more to stress two principles: Our National currency must be maintained as a sound currency which, in so far as possible, will have a fairly constant standard of purchasing power and be adequate for the purposes of daily use and the establishment of credit. "The other principle is the inherent right of Government...
...present economic confusion and one of the most inspiring, is the fact that although much has happened which has been fatal to other forms of government. American democracy as it now stands appears to be able to survive without much change in its fundamentals. Germany, under the economic stress which all governments have felt, has had to resort to the cheap and easy way out, a dictatorship; in Russia the Soviets are having their inning. It is most important to the world that an enormously complicated system like that under which we are now living be proved and made...
...orderly processes of government in this hemisphere are the concern of each individual nation within its own borders first of all. It is only if and when the failure of orderly processes affects the other nations of the continent that it becomes their concern; and the point to stress is that in such event it becomes the joint concern of a whole continent in which we are all neighbors...
This neglect of the homemaking angle of womanhood seems almost unprecedented in view of the fact that the author stresses an particularly in her introduction the fact that woman is "primordial force..continuer, protector, preserver of life, instinctive, active, thoughtful, ever bringing thought back from sterile spectulation to the center of life and work". Does it not seem true that woman as a homemaker, not as a political leader, is carrying out the idea of primordial force? Woman's place in the past was always in the home and it was there that she exerted her influence. Now it seems...
...history of Austrian socialism parallels that of the German. Originally militant Marxists, they became parliamentary gradualists under the stress of immediate problems, gathering support, and an apparently un-Marxian social evolution. In Vienna, their stronghold, they made astounding progress in developing a workers' paradise, with miles of modern apartment houses with landscaped courtyards, plenty of open air and light, great pools and bath houses--all for an average of $5 per month. This was accomplished by taxation of wealth and luxuries, which means, in effect, throwing a monkey wrench in to the capitalist works without substituting any new works...