DECEMBER 1975: 25, YEARS AGO IN REASON.* "While it is largely agreed that there is a crucial need to defend the freedom of business in order to avoid additional regulations, the fact that free enterprise has already been crippled crip·ple n. 1. A person or animal that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple. 2. A damaged or defective object or device. tr.v. by government intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. is ignored.... Many business spokesmen seem to believe that the existing system of interventions represents free enterprise, whereas any new regulations would be socialistic so·cial·is·tic adj. Of, advocating, or tending toward socialism. so  cial·is ." Charles G. Koch, "Anti-Capitalism & Business" * "Topless dancing is protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of expression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has ruled." "Milestones" * "Many gurus flit about the land today predicting a monetary armageddon while urging the necessity for squirreling Squirreling is the storing, hoarding or saving something against the day it will be scarce or otherwise be difficult to find in the future. Some squirrels store nuts and other foods away before winter sets in, which inspired the word. away gold and oatmeal in order to survive. The assumption is that those who do not have these materials will either break out in red-eyed rioting rage and burn down the countryside, or sit quietly on curbstones and die. The early months of 1933 are the only laboratory. we have to observe what people actually did under such stress....The fact is that an enormous volume of business was transacted without any banks or money at all." James J. Martin For other persons named James Martin, see James Martin (disambiguation). James J. Martin (September 18, 1916 – April 4, 2004) was an American historian. He was educated at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Michigan, earning a Ph.D. in history in 1949. . "Business & the New Deal" |
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