Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peering down the Johnson road, James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois discerned the same lurking bogey. Solemnly he recalled that seizure of factories and industrial unrest had preceded the rise of Fascist and Nazi dictators. "Hear your humble servant!'' warned courtly Senator "Jim Ham." "In every hour and condition such as now surrounds this our Government there awaits another Hitler and there lurks in the shadows another Mussolini...
...Socially, because the often illusive picture of high profits which they present causes social unrest...
...Politically, because this feeling of social unrest offers an opportunity to the demagog...
Advising opponents of the present democratic regime to cease obstructionist activities, Professor William Ripley, Harvard economist, expressed the opinion that the President's triumph in the recent election is attributable to the fact that he sensed the social unrest of the day, and by his actions convinced the country that he was willing to help remedy the defects of the old order...
...political advantage. "There is," he continued, "no difference between the two major parties as to what they think about Communism. But there is a very great difference between the parties in what they do about Communism. And I will tell you why Communism is a manifestation of the social unrest which always comes with widespread economic maladjustment; we in the Democratic party have not been content merely to denounce this menace. We have been realistic enough to face it. We have been intelligent enough to do something about it. . . . In the spring of 1933 we faced a crisis which...