Robert Trout
Robert Trout
Robert "Bob" Troutwas an American broadcast news reporter, best remembered for his radio work before and during World War II. He became known to many as the "Iron Man of Radio" for his ability to ad lib while on the air, as well as his stamina, composure, and elocution...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth15 October 1909
CountryUnited States of America
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american-journalist based creative denied economics fixed human jefferson nature saw society
Having denied that human nature is creative reason, Jefferson saw society and economics as based on fundamentally fixed relationships.
medicine addiction chinese
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
order needs levels
In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.
empires today never-forget
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
india east monopoly
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
philosophy battle revolution
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
too-much littles should
We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
chinese enemy saws
Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
nature pain men
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
easter army india
The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.
education people effort
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
drug use confucianism
Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
successful technology discovery
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
patriotic july chinese
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.