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Word: pry (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...making it a currency managed by the state; 6) running up annual deficits of billions of dollars, while using the national debt as an instrument of managerial social policy; 7) imposing taxes to secure social and political ends rather than income; 8) weakening capital relative to themselves by curtailing pri vate property rights in measure after measure ; 9 ) the taking over by the executive bureaus of the attributes and func tions of sovereignty: "the bureaus become the de facto 'law makers.' " Burnham believes that the gradual reduction of parliaments (the congress of Soviets, the Reichstag) to a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man & Managers | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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