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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unthinkable that the Government should resort to the printing press and the issuance of fiat currency. Such an act of moral bankruptcy would depreciate and might ultimately destroy the value of every dollar in the United States. It would cause the collapse of all confidence and bring widespread ruin. Daniel Webster, 100 years ago, stated...
Doom? Eugenists view with alarm the world's future population. From England wrote Major Leonard Darwin, 82, eugenist son of Evolutionist Charles Darwin: "My firm conviction is that if widespread eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization...
...Though he lisps, the tone and personality of General Balbo are pugnacious, virile, truculent. *Blackest stain on the reputation of Blackshirt Benito Mussolini is the widespread notion that he personally ordered the assassination of the multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, who was unquestionably done to Death by Fascists (TIME, June...
...thousands have taken their places is another epidemic likely to occur. New York City had a local epidemic in 1907 (2,000 cases). Its epidemic of 1916 (9,000 cases) spread to the Mississippi. Last year's epidemic was smaller (4,000 cases in New York City), less widespread. The next epidemic in the New York-New England area should not occur until 1941 or 1942, certainly not for five more years...
Because Americans, Englishmen, Germans, Dutchmen, Swedes, Lithuanians, Poles, Danes, Armenians, Serbians, Greeks, Estonians, Syrians, Letts, Icelanders, Norwegians and especially the Japanese think it is effeminate, many a modern Frenchman has abandoned the ancient & honorable Gallic custom of greeting friends with a resounding kiss on the cheek or jaw. So widespread has become the custom of shaking hands in France that last week the august L Académic de Médecine was asked for an opinion. Weightily the Academic considered, then over the voluble opposition of a youthful minority delivered these decisions: 1) the country man's hands...