Word: symptomized
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...certain. NRA as administered under the NRB will not be Johnsonian in scope, however gifted its new executive director, Donald R. Richberg, may be. For President Roosevelt's action, despite the installation of an old left-winger as the guide and mentor of his refurbished protege, nevertheless is a symptom of subsiding idealistic fever and return to a more normal if prosaic realistic temperature. When governing bodies replace dictators not only do dramatics subside but therewith the chances of detection in case of error. It is true that the President still works the pedals, but obviously he cannot devote...
...seem necessary to us to keep from the German reader news that he could read in foreign newspapers, at times in the grossest exaggeration and misrepresentation. The complete outlawing of certain topics of discussion seems also but a transitional check. . . . Our death should not be interpreted as a symptom of a development the end of which would be a standardized newspaper for every German...
...long time. "Theodore Roosevelt, who knew little or nothing of economics, sensed it; Woodrow Wilson, who knew little or nothing of finance, strove to anticipate it; the World War attempted to postpone it; Harding and Coolidge tried to destroy it, and Hoover to ignore it. ... Roosevelt is simply a symptom of that process and not its cause." The Old Deal is dead. "Whatever happens, the New Deal will go on-as either a peaceful revolution or a bloody one-for ten, 20 or 50 more years, until it has achieved its purpose." Even most Republicans would agree with the anonymous...
...study of the social problems of our time, are not better informed than the stick wielders of the Connecticut constabulary. The question is not one of information, in the sense that a scientific dispute would require, for a strike is not a scientific dispute. It is a symptom of a very real and a very serious disease, which students, before anyone else, had analyzed in the middle of the nineteenth century, and which they have fought ever since, unassisted by college deans or gendarmes...
...keen observer of popular trends, he was praising a spectacular demonstration of rising public intolerance with an emasculated system of criminal law. The lynching was a challenge to the legal fraternity. It gave them a glimpse of what failure to reform will lead to. It was a crude symptom of a state of intolerance of wrong, an intolerance against ineffectuality on the part of a mechanism originally established for the public good but reduced by changing conditions and technicalities to a mockery...