Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Hoover of quick remedies: "I have no word of criticism but rather great sympathy for those who honestly search human experience and human thought for some easy way out, where human selfishness has no opportunities, where freedom requires no safeguards, where justice requires no striving. . . . Such dreams are not without value and one could join in them with satisfaction but for the mind troubled by recollection of human frailty, the painful human advance through history, the long road which humanity still has to travel to economic and social perfections...
...social system is outworn and in its tendency to increasing regimentation, towards delegation of power to the executive. The New Deal involved no revolution: it was dangerous, on the contrary, because "In our blind groping we have stumbled into philosophies which lead to the surrender of freedom...
Just as U. S. history proved that freedom released man's creative impulses, led to the development of productive forces, stimulated inventions, spurred the commercial development of them, European experiences under Fascist and Communist dictatorships proved that freedom was never lost by a direct assault. He wrote: "The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; [in] slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent actions against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former...
...sponsoring committee to arrange the conference for Protection of Foreign Born. Keynoted Co-Chairman Neilson: "Noncitizens are being denied jobs and are being threatened with registration. More than 70 so-called anti-alien bills pending in the 76th Congress indicate the manner in which the attacks upon the freedom of the noncitizen can be used...
...Government regulation of industry to a reasonable basis; an end of Government pump-priming because it is a failure; recognition of the profit motive as an incentive to produce; a return to economy in Government expenditures; amendment of the National Labor Relations Act "to guarantee to employes real freedom in the selection of their representatives"; modification of the Securities Acts to encourage new capital investment...