Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five-for-one basis, U. S. arms appropriations would have to be $14,740,000,000 a year. If this discourages businessmen about the prospect of armament, it may also encourage them by the assurance that U. S. National Defense expenditures will not pervert the U. S. to a totalitarian, guns-instead-of-butter economy...
Although few Irishmen want a totalitarian state for Eire, a large part of Dublin cinemaudiences invariably and enthusiastically applauds whenever Führer Adolf Hitler makes his appearance on the screen. Explanation of this is that anybody who makes things tough for Britain is a hero in Eire...
...night, a week before the election, President Busch called a Cabinet meeting in La Paz, announced his dictatorship, refused to accept resignations. At 1 a. m. Cabinet officers went home, leaving the President and Minister Foianini to scribble out a program for the first classically totalitarian State in the Western Hemisphere.* At 6 a. m. they completed a proclamation not only abolishing the Senate, Chamber of Deputies, the Constitution, all courts, all legal codes, but establishing a dictatorship over Bolivian political, financial and social life. They denied, however, any connection with the Rome-Berlin Axis. At 10:30 the proclamation...
...days after his coup Dictator Germán Busch solemnly denied that his regime was totalitarian. His secretary cabled U. S. mining men that elections would be held soon...
Democracy to Mr. Hays is a living organism which adapts itself to environment. It has capacity for change, for absorbing new ideas and making use of them to fit into the framework of existing institutions. It is far more workable than any totalitarian government because it follows no rules except to respond to what the people want. The most exciting chapters of his book though the most sketchy, outline our progress in such fields as labor, agriculture, industry, science and invention. Mr. Hays proves conclusively that in America, at least, democracy has worked...