Word: totalitarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rdenas came in on a program of "social revolution" for Mexico's proletariat which is now encountering rough weather. For three years of his six-year term he insisted he was still pointing Left. Suddenly, two months ago he pushed through measures which smack of a totalitarian state and make him virtual dictator of Mexico. In rapid succession he dissolved his and Mexico's majority party, reorganized it to give the peasants and the army control, thus pulling labor's teeth. Next he shook up his Cabinet to make it 100% Cárdenas, shifted army heads...
...critical spectators at her latest performance, these old acts still seemed Angna Enters' best. Though the audience was gleeful the judicious grieved at the cheaper symbolism of a new piece called A Modern-Totalitarian Hero, or "The glory of living dangerously," in which Miss Enters appeared in a heavily bemedaled uniform and gas mask, went into mock ecstasies over a rose, then tore its petals off in rage at being pricked by a thorn...
...University, good Catholic, and, until his death last week (see p. 41), by the late Newton Diehl Baker, good Episcopalian, the N. C. J. C. last week launched its tenth anniversary celebration. For this, President Roosevelt, honorary chairman of the organization, wrote a letter declaring that "philosophies dominant in totalitarian states must not be allowed to disrupt the cordial relationships which now exist among Protestants, Catholics and Jews in America...
...which this understanding between the government, industrialists and labor leaders can be brought about. But others have suggested that we stop bandying glib phrases and slogans like "rugged individualism" and "that government is best which governs least"; that we can no longer afford to allow symbols like the "totalitarian state" and "Fascist regimentation" to obscure the practical imperative need for the activity of the one agency that can cushion the ruthless forces of a dynamic world
After charting the dismalcours of the totalitarian states, the author turns to the struggling democracies. Professor Hoover realizes that changing conditions require a reconsideration of the government. He notes that we are in the twentieth century and suggests that the political theories which accorded with the facts of the previous hundred years may have to be modified to permit gov- ornmont to assume its new responsibilities--to break the severity of depressions in a world that has seen semi-monopoly and corporate organization throttle free competition and the entrpreneur, Unlike Walter Lippmann, Hoover does not advocate that we solve...