Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Part of the British press last week deplored Their Majesties' decision to take the Repulse instead of a liner, because 1) the accommodations, though ingenious, are not too comfortable; 2) "We need all our warships here for the purpose of defense...
...money from you and even you don't get it all back. All you need to do is look at these big buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue to realize that. We take your shirt and give you a little piece of the shirttail. Then you go back home waving it and shouting 'Look what Uncle Sam gave...
...Millville, N. J., he worked his way through Swarthmore College, played basketball and football there. Once, in a huff, he stripped off his basketball suit, marched naked from the gym. When he was an economics instructor at Carnegie Tech, he had the fortitude to take his class to hear Socialist Eugene V. Debs. At 43, he looks like a Sunday-supplement caricature of a radical...
...Spanish-American War, Alfred Mahan had preached that the U. S. should annex Hawaii and then defend it with a Big Navy. He declared that the Navy should not only follow but carry the U. S. dollar into world markets, that the U. S. like imperial Britain should take and govern backward peoples for their own good. A Big Navy he called "the handmaid of expansion...
...last three months we have heard little of the New Deal, but every member of the Government, whether it lies in his province or not, is ballyhooing the foreign situation, trying to stir up prejudice against this country or that, and at all costs take the minds of the people off their troubles at home. One thing is perfectly clear-no denouncing of dictators or eulogies of democracies can improve the condition of the people of this country by one penny of income...