Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime reason for its swift extinction was that it lacked the vital organs necessary to make a general strike succeed. It did not shut off the city's light, water, or food supplies. It did not silence the newspapers, throwing the city into a state of rumor-ridden ignorance about what was going on. If Labor had dared to go to these extremes, it would have had a frantic San Francisco by the throat. As it was, instead of paralyzing, the strike only pinched, inviting citizens and Government to rise and stamp out their tormentor...
China's is the only Government which cheerfully and publicly buys off its political foes, generally with much heroic haggling. Last week a glorious bargain was finally struck by agents of the shrill little Chinese Generalissimo, wasp-waisted Chiang Kaishek. To get this most vital haggle started the agents had to go to British Hongkong and blandish their way into a strongly built house protected by elaborate iron gratings and guarded day and night by heavily armed Sikh police from India...
...Reichskanzler!" Even before the thundering tri-motor reached Tempelhof Field its radio had spoken and in high Nazi circles the President's steadying hand was felt. Old Paul had persuaded Chancellor Hitler that the way to ORDER lay in retaining Vice Chancellor von Papen and taking certain other vital steps with which the German Press soon hummed...
...effort to conserve the Fatherland's dwindling store of foreign exchange-sure to be needed to buy vital food imports next winter-Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht recently decreed a sweeping moratorium (TIME. June 25). Last week British threats of retaliation broke the moratorium as far as British holders of Dawes and Young loan bonds are concerned (see p. 15). This breach in the Moratorium Front looked certain to widen before onslaughts at once launched by the U. S. and French Embassies in Berlin. There seemed to be only one answer for Germany: controlled inflation, bulwarked by government control...
...making new ones. For if men are to live in organized society, they have got to relinquish their purpose when it interferes with the well-being of their fellow-citizens. Nevertheless; even in this field as well as one's own personal life, judgment plays a vital function. A Harvard graduating class is in a more favorable position than many other young men in the country today to score heavily. Certainly there are more chances today to direct one's self into constructive channels, but keeping off the mudbanks on either side requires a code of one's own, which...