Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everybody is agreed that this cannot happen again, that the public interest is the paramount interest, and that irresponsible private power is an intolerable danger to our beleaguered society." To keep it from happening again, Stevenson proposed that Congress arm the President with an arsenal of new antistrike weapons, ranging from boards empowered to make settlement recommendations (present law bars Taft-Hartley boards of inquiry from offering recommendations) to compulsory arbitration if the two sides proved unwilling to "exercise responsibility consonant with their power...
Echoing Watson's remarks, Allen Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, cautioned that in the struggle for the uncommitted nations, Russia had a "subversive arsenal of organizations which use the slogans of peace, friendship and coexistence. We have not answered the challenge if we limit ourselves merely to meeting the Kremlin's military threat." Watson's speech was greeted with some restraint. Later, it was liberally interpreted (Watson left for Europe immediately after the speech) by incoming N.A.M. President Rudolf F. Bannow, president of Bridgeport (Conn.) Machines, Inc. to mean that "if you give the economy...
...present stalemates has shown that a better system of regulating disputes than now exists is needed. The injunction mechanism now provided becomes only a lever for management, and is the last weapon in the government's arsenal. And in this strike where such huge forces are involved, the eighty-day return to work may grant only a momentary respite...
...despite a whole arsenal of props and an agreeable assemblage of players, topped by TV's Tom Poston, Golden Fleecing is into the second act before it explodes into laughter. Then it expires in the third. Playwright Semple cannot solve the author's great problem of getting his people into trouble while staying out of it himself. He is too laborious tying his yarn in knots, too predictable untying it. Amid Director Abe Burrows' sharp whipcracking, there is too much forced wisecracking; amid a great many antics, there is never quite enough...
...executive who was appointed (1942) by F.D.R. to be chairman of the War Production Board, captained the gigantic wartime industrial effort, went abroad to oversee production in England, China and Russia, resigned (1944) in a huff over what he felt was interference by the military, whom he later accused (Arsenal of Democracy) of trying to control the U.S. economy, became president (1945-47) of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles...