Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweeping social forces unleashed ... by the World War, by the tremendous advances in productive technology during the last quarter century, by the failure to march with a growing sense of justice, peoples and governments are blindly wounding . . . those fundamental human liberties which have been the foundation and inspiration of progress...
...Finland's supply lines open. Forty thousand more men were mobilized, bringing Sweden's armed forces to 150,000. The fortress of Boden, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, was reinforced with reserves. Here was the greatest Russian threat to Sweden, marked by the steady progress of a Russian column across Finland toward Tornio on the Swedish-Finnish frontier. Some 4,000 Swedes volunteered for the Finnish Army and several hundred of them last week managed to cross the frontier and join up. Even more important were the supplies rushed to Finland by Sweden...
...Progress. "The Chinese," White concluded, "have advanced during the war from a fourth rate Army to a second rate Army. This is progress. Before the war the Chinese Armies were notorious for the fact that they could run faster and retreat in worse disorder than any known national group of armed men. This was understandable because of the world in which they lived, and the causes for which they were asked to die. Cowardice was common-'kai pa' ('I'm afraid') was heard on every hand. But the present Chinese Army has spirit. It glows...
...Senate in Washington, might just possibly have gone to the White House if he had not been shot in his own skyscraper capitol in 1935. Huey never had much use for a free press. He reserved State advertising, State printing for papers that backed his cause-including Louisiana Progress, which he owned himself. Once he tried to tax every daily in Louisiana out of existence, but the U. S. Supreme Court held his act unconstitutional...
Observe in one corner the Communist organ, the Daily Worker, and in the other, the New York Times. The slogan of the former: "People's Champion of Liberty, Progress, Peace, and Prosperity" and of the latter: "All the News That's Fit to Print". Quoth the Worker on December 1 and 2, "The newspapers of this country are giving the American people a heavy dose of war propaganda," and "Twenty-five thousand newspapers lied to their readers yesterday . . . . . the respectable New York Times showed them how to do it." But the accused hat! answered a month before in an editorial...