Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...industries producing the necessities of life. After pointing out the difference between the average socialist and the guild socialist, he outlined the four tactical paths through which the Socialist Party is working to procure its ends, namely, through the unification of the separated movements for democratic control; through the gradual gaining of legislative control, with an organized Labor Party as a background; through the combining of consumers in cooperative organizations to control wholesale and retail trades; and through education, with attention also to the lessons of European experience...
...Medieval Mind" gives a sympathetic and scholarly survey of the period which is commonly called the renaissance. In accord with his theories he avoids this term, however, because of its popular implication that the culture of this period was of a distinct and original character and not a gradual growth out of prior time...
...Because the present League of Nations is the only practical plan within our reach for international cooperation to prevent wars of aggression, and bring about gradual disarmament...
...Before definite conclusions are drawn from statistical date, underlying economic conditions are investigated by analyzing the conditions surrounding the industries or institutions used as sources of data, by studying the functions of such industries in our business organization, and by determining the reliability of the data. Variations due to gradual growth or "secular trend" and to seasonal fluctuations characteristic of every industry are carefully eliminated; while allowance is made for other causes which have no part in the normal course of the business cycle. The various series which appear to have most in common in the character and time...
...induced nations to enter into wars which might not otherwise have been undertaken. Each nation which builds up a great military establishment also stimulates other nations to do the same. For this reason it is agreed in the covenant that every member nation shall enter upon a system of gradual armament reduction, under the advice and suggestion of the council of nine nations so that the reduction shall be simultaneous among all nations...