Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who persist in repeating the old formula that England is known far and wide for its propensity to compromise, that its people are a law-abiding nation, that democracy has reigned uninterrupted since 1688, Mr. Laski has two replies. One is the clear fact that no serious, fundamental issue has since been forced to the attention of the country; the two parties have been able to agree to disagree, simply because they are agreed on what Madison termed "the only enduring source of faction--Property." The other answer is that until now the continued economic success of the capitalist...
...vile publications as Politico Comica and La Scinana, graft, politics that exploit Cuba for personal gain, regardless of public advantage. And they seek a system of liberal education, purity of the press, a wholesome young manhood and young womanhood of Cuba Libre, the total eradication of snobocracy, a nation-wide sense of honor, true and devoted,men and women. Then they will have gained Freedom, Liberty, Justice and Honor, as few nations yet possess the same...
This last was as definite as the Chancellor would be on the question that all Britain knew had split the Cabinet wide open: to pay or not to pay the installment of $75,950,000 due the U. S. three days after the W. E. C. opens. Stanley Baldwin was leading one faction, for immediate payment. Neville Chamberlain was leading the faction for default, secure in the knowledge that President Roosevelt's suspension of the gold clause in U. S. bonds had shocked thousands of Britons...
...behind the Securities Act a strong reminder that a corporation is not a thing which anybody has a "right" to create but that it should be created by the state "only when there is some reasonable likelihood in statecraft . . . that it will be a useful organism." Ultimately, nation-wide corporations should be created (and controlled) by the Federal Government. The present bill gives the Federal (only really effective government) its first real control...
Though Publisher Schuster calls Little Man, What Now? "the Odyssey of the Forgotten Man, the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the world-wide economic crisis," though it has been a big seller in Germany, and though the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen it for June, many a bewildered reader may ask himself what all the shooting is for. To many a reader Little Man, What Now? will seem a thickly sentimental, occasionally pathetic, never tragic or deeply moving story of a very ordinary little man. As a case-history it is competently managed; as a novel...