Word: amends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make it clear that the U.S. Government opposes inflation, President Eisenhower has asked Congress to amend the Employment Act of 1946 to include "reasonable price stability" among the nation's explicit economic goals. Commented Walter Reuther's Economic Policy Committee: "An empty gesture." As advocates of more federal spending see it, the Administration's balanced budget is also an empty gesture. They argue that a deficit of a few billion dollars in the next fiscal year can have only a slight impact in a $475 billion-a-year economy. But as a symbol of a commitment...
...Amend the Smith Act so as to counteract the Supreme Court's narrow interpretation of the words "organize" and "advocate" that upset the basis of the Federal Government's prosecution of active Communists (TIME, July 1, 1957). Such amendment is necessary, said the recommendations, "so that this nation need not be forced to delay the invoking of the judicial process until such time as the damage has already been wrought...
Federal assistance to higher education, especially long-term, low-interest loans, is welcome. As colleges are forced to expand, their financial aid resources are spread thinner and thinner. But, to prevent the Program from becoming a farce, Congress should amend the Act to provide a workable method for determining actual financial need, while insuring colleges against unwanted Federal control...
...voted down efforts by Commissioners Milton Cook and David Mintz to amend or postpone approval of the measure. Mintz questioned whether state support of the project was a proper use of public funds and urged a reexamination on this score...
...Congress this week, stressed the nation's need to look to the health of its basic source of material strength: the U.S. economy under the free-enterprise system. For fiscal 1960 the President submitted a balanced $77 billion budget. In his Economic Report, he asked Congress to amend the Employment Act of 1946 by adding "reasonable price stability" to the other economic goals-"maximum production, employment and purchasing power"-that the Federal Government is pledged to foster. "An indispensable condition for achieving vigorous and continuing economic growth," said the President, "is firm confidence that the value of the dollar...