Contemporary Forum: American Speeches on Twentieth-century IssuesHarper, 1962 - 376 pages Companion volume to "American forum - speeches on historic issues, 1788-1900". American speeches on twentieth-century issues. |
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Page 133
... economic spasms , largely traceable to the last war and its repercussions , particularly in Europe , would pass in good time . He recalled that our economic history was pocked by depressions of varying depths from which we had always ...
... economic spasms , largely traceable to the last war and its repercussions , particularly in Europe , would pass in good time . He recalled that our economic history was pocked by depressions of varying depths from which we had always ...
Page 153
... economic life was dominated by some 600 - odd corporations who controlled two - thirds of American industry . Ten million small business men divided the other third . More striking still , it appeared that , if the process of ...
... economic life was dominated by some 600 - odd corporations who controlled two - thirds of American industry . Ten million small business men divided the other third . More striking still , it appeared that , if the process of ...
Page 217
... economic inequality is the established rule . The demand for a new social order is in fact a demand for the existence of economic and political conditions that will allow the realization of the old dem- ocratic ideas of liberty for all ...
... economic inequality is the established rule . The demand for a new social order is in fact a demand for the existence of economic and political conditions that will allow the realization of the old dem- ocratic ideas of liberty for all ...
Contents
THE PROGRESSIVE | 3 |
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS DEBATE | 51 |
MODERNISM VS FUNDAMENTALISM IN RELIGION | 87 |
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