Word: utopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential nominee, he was afraid his signature on a bone dry law would cost him support among Eastern Wets. Last week a Democratic proposal for such a law got only nine Senate votes. Even Joe McDonald was against it. "In Kansas," cried he, "we seem to have a unique Utopia in which the Drys have the law and the Wets have their liquor. It's true that most of the taxes go to Missouri, but since I like a nice cold glass of beer, and everybody knows it, I'll vote...
...Coughlin-Lemke-O'Brien platform was a marvel of inclusive appeal to every crackpot and malcontent in the land. Briefly, it proposed to create a common-man's Utopia by legislative fiat. For Lemke-Coughlin inflationists there was to be a government central bank, with complete control of money and credit, which would issue new currency to retire all Government bonds, refinance all farm and home mortgages. For Townsendites, there was "assurance of reasonable and decent security for the aged." For Share-the-Wealthers, there was limitation of individual incomes and inheritances. For the benefit of anyone...
...first brought scopolamine to this country. I wish to God I hadn't done it! I didn't know what I was doing. I have seen hundreds of women die on the delivery table because of the wrongful use of drugs. The Utopia when physicians have a drug that is safe for both mother and child will come. But it will take a long time...
Woven into a fantastic prophesy of the course of life in the next century, "Things to Come" offers a horse drench of the bold philosophy of H. G. Wells and a glimpse into the Wellsian Utopia: a thought-provoking experience...
...bold attempt, nevertheless, and embodies a real philosophy. The theory of eternal strife assumes a futuristic form as the Age of Science tempestuously follows its course to a "sane and practical" Utopia. Futility, the imperfection of mere humanity, the loss of individuality, and the desire for happiness all rebel against the omnipotence of science, and the final fade-out leaves with us the unanswered question: "The conquest of the universe--or nothing! What shall...