Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incisive articles, which have the briefness characteristic of this monthly published by the New York Times, pose the Alpha and Omega of modern economic theory to readers of the March issue. The between cover and above-board fight between the article entitled "The Technocratic Terror," by T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, emeritus, and the essay "Marxism After Fifty Years," by Harold Laski, reputed "barin" behind the former Labour party in England, and previous to that, professor of Economics at Harvard, leave only to be decided which is the Alpha and which the Omega...
...Technocratic Terror" in a short space attacks Technocracy, Communism ("only a development of Marxism with a slight change of terminology"), and vigorously defends capitalism, private property, competition, and especially profit--the motivation of a perpetual capitalistic industrial advancement. Unemployment is explained thus, "under the market economy those who have only muscular power to sell must sell it in competition with mechanical power." Technocracy is the explanation of those who have not the brains to do what a machine cannot do, and Communism is the system made to foster these classes and keep them in power. Obviously the machine will overthrow...
...possible that Governments will still continue to make trade pacts with the Bolshevist murderers? . . . Will the League of Nations go on discussing questions of peace and disarmament with the representatives of a Government whose chief method of work is a bloody terror? . . . Open your eyes. Unite in a common protest against the tortures of 160,000,000 defenseless Russian people...
...them go all the way to Junior year without knowing that there's a ball game going on. In my day most of the girls knew all about it--but then,--I better not chatter about them too much--the hall mistress might hear, and she's holy terror, believe...
Although many people hailed the latest manifestation of the Watch and Ward Society, as a welcome sign of renewed vigor, those who have followed its course closely must take a different view. It has degenerated sadly from the days when its name struck terror to booksellers who carried the favorite esoteric of the moment in the little safe in the back room. Its decline can be dated from the time when its inordinate 1-st for the purity of letters caused it to descend on the Dunster House Bookstore...