Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everything to lose, nothing to gain by entering the War Debt parleys which Mr. Roosevelt specifically approves. Flaying the British Chancellor, Senator Johnson accused cold, cultured Neville Chamberlain of possessing what no member of the historic House of Chamberlain was ever ashamed to have-a superiority complex...
...same, Herr Hitler was not given carte blanche to form a Cabinet. The President attached seven complex and, as events proved, impossible conditions. After 14 days of Cabinet crisis there emerged as Chancellor, out of a welter of intrigue, "His Field Grey Eminence," suave, sly Defense Minister General Kurt von Schleicher. By his friends the General's adroit scheming is said to have "made and broken" as Chancellor both fashionable, aristocratic Franz von Papen and his predecessor, pious, ascetic Dr. Heinrich Brüning...
These final remarks of President Butler's are too deftly conciliatory to escape the charge of sophism. In this, they illustrate a fundamental obstacle to academic freedom in this country. The entire educative mechanism is bound up in a complex of interdependencies which hamper free action. President Butler adroitly approves the theory and forbids the act, just as do so many other leaders of education; they are all accountable to some lone who would be injured by an undue enthusiasm over truth. It is certain that freedom in teaching is desirable. But it is a futile hope until the departmental...
...effect, amends only those parts of the Volstead Act which today limit the alcoholic content of "beer, lager beer, ale, porter" to ½%. Whiskey, gin, rum, wine and the like are still left legally taboo. Untouched are the scale of penalties for Prohibition violations. As large and complex as ever are the restrictions on industrial alcohol. H. R. 13,312, with many a change in definition, does nothing more than set up a complete legal exception for 3.2% beer from the 18th Amendment. To raise revenue it taxes the new beer $5 per bbl.?the brewers' chosen figure?thus...
...predicament of secondary education in America is the inevitable outcome of the heedless materialism that characterized the twenties, a materialism accompanied by a expanding complex that blinded public educators to the fundamentals of education. The motives which prompted communities to erect palatial surroundings for the secondary school system were doubtless admirable, but they tended automatically toward the neglect of the standards of teaching, and they were expensive. If the first of these effects has, by its lesser concreteness, been concealed from public attention, the second has been painfully obvious. For the long term loans which made the physical improvements possible...