Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selection of the Indiana liberal was a telling blow to the Robert Taft, Herbert Hoover, Alf Landon school of Old Guard conservatism. It came as a popular reaction against a policy that had cooly managed to avoid action during the early depression, that had humiliated the party in 1936, and had risen to hamstring preparedness. Clearly, the obstructionist conservatives were on the outs with the popular interests of the party, still the die-hards had fight left in them and set to work preparing for the second round...
...Government's normal bid-and-contract practice of buying commodities and services must give way to a system of allocations (used in the last war) that will avoid a multitude of priorities and sustain small business...
...larger significance attached to the argument over the way the pact had been presented to Congress. It was before the Senate not as a treaty, requiring a two-thirds majority in the Senate, but as a joint resolution needing only a majority. The Administration was taking this means to avoid almost certain defeat by isolationists, plus the risk of upsetting good neighborliness in a bruising give-&-take argument...
...Beveridge plan weighs Britain down so that she cannot maintain her trade, her people will face want, social security or no. They might avoid it if the U.S. continued Lend-Lease aid, thereby in effect assuming the cost of the plan. Or they might avoid it by export subsidies, barter agreements and other devices such as Germany used before the war-thereby colliding head on with U.S. policy, which has been steadily heading toward freer world markets...
...Army Institute is designed to avoid that danger by establishing a uniform method of teaching and testing soldiers and sailors...