Word: utopianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colony will be Don L. Irwin, general manager of the newly formed Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. A lanky, pleasant Kansas State Agricultural College graduate, he was a successful Wyoming rancher until the Government sent him to head its Agricultural Experiment Station in Matanuska Valley three years ago. Of his Utopian project, Chief Irwin said last week: "Almost the first job will be to clear out the mosquitoes. They are the chief handicap...
...greenhouse was designed by Dr. John Morris Arthur, who last week indulged in a bit of Utopian prophecy: "This new machine will let the suburban householder plug in his greenhouse just as he plugs in his vacuum cleaner. It is almost foolproof in operation and all he will have to do is tend to his plants...
Suppose the U. S. could scrap its codes, constitutions, institutions, traditions, start anew from scratch. Many a Utopian has meditated that heady impossibility. More realistic, Chairman William Yandell Elliott of Harvard's Department of Government last week presented a series of proposals for revamping the present Constitutional structure to accord with modern political and economic realities.* If adopted, his proposals might produce a scene like the following...
Economic theories for the immediate salvation of the U. S. come & go like the waves of the sea, pounding loudly for a little while on the beach of public attention and then receding to the silent depths of history. The Utopian movement, whipped up into big breakers by the 1934 campaign, spent itself in the defeat of California's Upton Sinclair and his EPIC. Its successor, the Townsend Plan, touched its high watermark just before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey...
...send the President, Senators and Congressmen home and keep an office boy at the White House to open the telegrams? Then when some damphool blasts the air with some other Utopian idea all we will have to do is to wire Washington; the office boys will count the telegrams and the stenographers will write the laws on the books, according to the majority vote...