Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aim of the law, passed during the Depression, was to force workers to retire and get out of the labor force to make room for someone else. Since then, the labor shortage has changed the need for such a requirement, and 26 bills to let a worker over 65 collect his pension no matter how much he earns are now awaiting action by Congress. But the chances are slim that all restrictions on earnings will be dropped. The chief objection is that the total cost of paying benefits to those over 65, no matter what their income, would amount...
...thing, these five woodwind instruments which have somehow found a place in the modern orchestra after centuries of experimentation and sifting have not that tonal and technical uniformity which is the raison d'etre of the string quartet. Of course it may be answered that a woodwind quintet can aim at quite a different and equally valid ideal. Unfortunately, composers have not yet shown what this might be. The two classical works on the program (by Beethoven and Haydn) were both transcriptions, and of the contemporary quintets played, only the Hindemith has serious merit, though three short pieces by Ibert...
...conference wound up with a speech from Clement Attlee. He appealed for "unity of aim and actien," predicted a general election "in a very short time." This time, said Attlee, Labor will...
This suited Kemal fine. Arriving in Anatolia, he convoked a congress and proclaimed: "The aim of the movement is to free the Sultan-Caliph from the clutches of the foreign enemy." Desperately, the Sultan, who did not want to be so freed, wired: "Cease all activity!" Replied Kemal: "I shall stay in Anatolia until the nation wins its independence." Turkey, or what was left of it, had two governments: Kemal's and the Sultan...
When the social reformers were tall in the saddle back in 1934, the U.S. Congregationalists set up a Council for Social Action. Its aim was to help make "the Christian gospel more effective in society," and its membership was drawn heavily from the ranks of those who feared many things more than creeping socialism. Among the causes the council plugged: the consumer cooperative movement, compulsory health insurance, federal aid to education. By last year, such council gospel had drawn so much Congregational counterfire (TIME, March 17, 1952) that a nine-man committee was set up to investigate it. Last week...