Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admit It." Any one of those measures would run into varying Republican opposition. The reaction of Republican Congressmen to the special session call was mixed. Only a few hours before the call, Minnesota's Harold Knutson, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, had declared that Congress would limit aid to Europe even under the Marshall Plan to $1 billion next year. Contemplated in the Marshall Plan: some $6 to $7 billion the first year. Said Knutson: "Give them a paddle and then tell 'em-'Go paddle your own canoe...
...Uncle Sam had come into World War II at the outset ... if you even had the gallantry to admit that Britain's postwar travail stems from what she did for the rest of us in 1940 and 1941 . . . Canadian opinion of Uncle Sam would not be what it is today. As Canadians see it, Uncle's new status as dictator of the free world's economy derives directly from the Great Hangback...
...organized labor, which is committed to the doctrine of always asking for more and of never making a retreat except under the pressure of a greater counterforce, could not and did not take such a view. Even the pinkest of labor leaders would admit, privately, that as long as the U.S. has prosperity-uneasy as it might be-the Taft-Hartley Law would work few hardships on labor. But for tactical reasons, and because it feared that the combination of the law and a depression might do them mortal harm, both the left and the right of organized labor stood...
Registration rules, as published by the Cambridge Voting Commission, admit to the polls only those students who are U.S. citizens over the age of 21 with at least one year's residence in Massachusetts and six months in Cambridge. The period of domicile in Cambridge must date from...
...strengths and glories of Massachusetts is her willingness to admit that a miscarriage of justice has occurred," he said. "You don't weaken justice but strengthen it when you acknowledge your mistakes," Professor Schlesinger continued, pointing out that a statue to Anne Hutchinson, banished from Massachusetts, now stands on the State House grounds...