Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...getting him many votes. But it was making him an increasingly able popularizer of one of the world's thorniest subjects-the relations of economics and government, and their relation to the lives of individual citizens. His strongest statements came in his assertions that the doctrine of the class struggle was retrogressive in terms of U. S. life. He quoted the phrases of Lincoln that many a leftist has popularized: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is therefore...
Thus to deny the validity of the class struggle to workmen who listened silently, or who booed his car as it passed, did not look like clever politics. But, given the structure of Willkie's ideas, his campaign led him inevitably to the factory gates, though it might never lead him to the White House. This hammering at the factory gates was not only a demonstration of personal courage. It was also a campaign for labor votes. But it was above all an integral point in the Willkie argument that he was trying to put across by his actions...
...incredible hats, fabulous costumes, he wanders about laying carpets for some of the loveliest musichorines in years, entangling himself with a pair of acrobats, conducting a lunatic dancing class, giving a weird exhibition of marksmanship with strange guns. Best of his current gadgets: a piano attached to a velocipede arrangement that enables him to pedal Jane Pickens, his diva, about to the rhythm of the jaunty air Catsup on the Moon. His giggle is infectious, his puns hilarious and he has the Dancing De Marcos to add pace to his show. But not even Wynn's enormous talent...
...final form, passed Senate and House without a roll call, went to the President's desk for signature. The bill had been ordered by the President two months ago to prevent war millionaires. Far from doing that, shouted Massachusetts' Allen Treadway, "this bill sets up a new class of war millionaires-namely, so-called tax experts. Anyone who can explain this can become a millionaire overnight." Senator Vandenberg, who had had a succés with the phrase a few weeks before, repeated "I still think it is an imponderable mess." The President himself, in signing the bill...
Shortly before the 1848 revolution, Michelet also wrote a hymn of hate, The People. In it he described French society as a series of mutually ferocious classes. The debt-ridden peasant envies the factory worker. The factory worker envies the skilled worker. The skilled worker has "bourgeois aspirations." The bank-ridden bourgeois drives his workers, hates them as the uncertain element in production. The workers hate the foreman. The merchant hates his customers. The leisure class hates everybody, lives in constant fear of communism...