Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their last appearance at Harvard Cambridge debaters defeated the Crimson in the spring of 1947 on the subject; "Resolved, That the advantages to be gained from nationalization of basic industries would be overwhelming...
Argument in Congress, after an 11-year history, is reaching its climax in this session with the inclusion of oil in the President's State of the Union message. Committee hearings on the controversy have attracted so many different issues,--states rights, conservation, and national defense--that the basic problem is often obscured...
...government-in-medicine (with his pert partner-wife, Leone Baxter, he led the successful California fight against Governor Earl Warren's compulsory insurance plan in 1945), Clem said what the medical brass wanted to hear: "The doctors of this country are in the front lines today [of] a basic struggle between ... socialism and private initiative . . . Oscar Ewing, that great patent-medicine man . . . apparently is grimly determined to bring socialized medicine from sick Europe to healthy America...
Dean Pound concluded that we must follow the first alternative in order to have a consistent policy of supporting all constitutional governments which recognize basic human rights...
...organize, has certainly become an unbalanced law with the growth of union strength; and the Taft-Hartley Law, passed in an aura of bitterness in 1947, has been unsuccessful in its attempt to cover a multitude of labor-management problems by federal legislation. But the closed shop is a basic labor right, and must be guaranteed by federal statute; equally important is protection against stoppages in industries vital to the national welfare. On other items, a single federal law would be too broad to cover the multitudinous complexities of the labor system, but in these two matters action...