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Nazi Party...
[Document ID#: 61450
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We demand: ... an end to the power of the financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand ... the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education ... We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents ... The government must undertake the improvement of public health - by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor .... a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of the common good before the individual good.
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Borkenau, Franz...
[Document ID#: 47163
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Depressions, and especially an economic depression of such a scope as that of 1929-33, do not create readiness for every sort of fight. The masses of unemployed, who determine, more and more, in such a situation the views and actions even of those how have remained at work, are little adapted to continual, methodical fights for determined aims. They waver between short, wild, desperate outbreaks and complete apathy.... They leave in millions their old organizations ... mostly because they feel that these organizations are powerless to help them. Here, then, is the point to where left-wing extremism of the type of 1929 meets admirable the mood of the workless. If the communist agitators tell the unemployed that the trade unions have betrayed him and are no good, he is ready to believe them. If they tell the worker who is still employed that the union - by betrayal, of course - cannot protect either his wage or his job, he feels that the communists are right - and leaves the union
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Roosevelt, Theodore...
[Document ID#: 58543
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If I can be right 75 per cent of the time I shall come up to the fullest measure of my hopes.58542. 58541Two months ago we were facing serious problems. The country was dying by inches. It was dying because trade and commerce had declined to dangerously low levels; prices for basic commodities were such as to destroy the value of the assets of national institutions such as banks, savings banks, insurance companies, and others. These institutions, because of their great needs, were foreclosing mortgages, calling loans, refusing credit. Thus there was actually in process of destruction the property of millions of people.
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Roosevelt, Theodore...
[Document ID#: 58543
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If I can be right 75 per cent of the time I shall come up to the fullest measure of my hopes.58542. 58541Two months ago we were facing serious problems. The country was dying by inches. It was dying because trade and commerce had declined to dangerously low levels; prices for basic commodities were such as to destroy the value of the assets of national institutions such as banks, savings banks, insurance companies, and others. These institutions, because of their great needs, were foreclosing mortgages, calling loans, refusing credit. Thus there was actually in process of destruction the property of millions of people.
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U. S. Congress...
[Document ID#: 58592
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The inequality of bargaining power between employees who do not possess full freedom of association or actual liberty of contract, and employers who are organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association substantially burdens and affects the flow of commerce, and tends to aggravate recurrent business depressions, by depressing wage rates and the purchasing power of wage earners.
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Wilson, Edmund...
[Document ID#: 46055
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The stock market crash of 1929 was to count for us almost like a rending of the earth in preparation for the Day of Judgment .... One couldn't help being exhilarated at the unexpected collapse of that stupid gigantic fraud ... with a businessman President [Herbert Hoover] in the White House, who kept telling us, when he told us anything, that the system was perfectly sound ... we wondered about the survival of republican American institutions; and we became more and more impressed by the achievements of the Soviet Union.
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Vorse, Mary Heaton...
[Document ID#: 60878
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They took a census of the floating unemployed on the East Side, which covered the homeless men. In the Municipal Lodging House, in the missions and shelters, in flop-houses and speakeasies where a man can stay all night, sleeping on sawdust, if he buys a drink... The regular salaried census takers had a force of between two and three hundred volunteers, divided up into teams...They are rounding up the misery of the East Side. ...This is a queer census. It is a census of misery. It is the count of despair. In New York City for future reference they will tabulate the hopeless and put between covers of books how many men are wandering around shelterless, no prospect of jobs, no place to stay in the daytime, no place to sleep at night. How many are there - the wanderers from Municipal Lodging House to Salvation Army shelter, to flop-house, to speakeasy? How many are there sleeping in the subway or under the bridge at One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Street?
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