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...Spain's semifeudal society, steeped in piety, vised by the landowners. He was determined that no one should stop him until he had accomplished two things: 1) the substitution of non-sectarian schools for the Catholic Church schools that have taught Spaniards all they know for half a millennium; 2) the dispossession of the great grandee landowners. His great weapon is the Socialist labor unions of 1,000,000 well-organized men, ready to strike at the drop of Premier Azana's floppy black...
...husband to return from Western lands discovers that he has been educated out of her world. An old mother slowly learns that her new-fangled son begrudges her a place in his home. A poor farmer, caught in a wave of revolution, finds that his share of the mystical millennium is small. The father of a family marooned by a flood, starving to death, remembers that girls are worth less than boys...
What Reporter Knickerbocker stated, and what his editors seemed to overlook, is that the Rohrbach experiment so far "is only a millennium on paper." Nor is the Rohrbach principle entirely new. Dr. Rohrbach, a builder most famed for his seaplanes (Rohrbach "Rostra." Rohrbach "Romar") has been working on the revolving-wing theory with infinite care for more than two years but has not progressed beyond preliminary wind-tunnel tests...
This supposition that Honesty, goodwill, and earnestness can cope with the problems of today is almost unbelievable in its easy optimism. It is an innocent trust in divine harmony which outdoes even the optimism of H. G. Wells's faith in indefinite progress and the attainment of the millennium through the help of science and the popularization of knowledge...
...address to the American Bar Association, President Hoover, naming no names, warned against a betrayal "by false prophets of a millennium promised through seductive but unworkable and disastrous theories of government." urged all good lawyers to "defend our system of government against reckless assaults by designing persons...