Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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U.M.W. v. New Deal. John L. poured. Three days later he appeared before the convention with a 1,600-word resolution: 1,000 words denouncing the New Deal, 200 praising Governor Thomas E. Dewey. The New Deal, said the resolution, was the first administration "to abolish collective bargaining ... to bind men to their jobs like indentured servants." It passed the "Smith-Connally-Harness Slave...
What children most of the critics of Russia's policies were! As if Russia needed to set up Communist governments all over Europe. Stupid! First of all Russia needed peace-to bind up its wounds, to organize its resources into an impregnable, unconquerable socialist state. First of all Russia needed freedom from the fear of invasion, a cordon sanitaire, in reverse, on its western, frontiers. Henceforth, from the Arctic Ocean to the Adriatic Sea, there must be a chain of governments friendly to Russia...
...stiff ruling against job-skipping that previously applied only to 19 isolated "trouble spots" will thereafter bind all the U.S. But in practice, WMC promised to allow plenty of local leeway, and claimed that the program was "voluntary." But WMC hinted at its power to punish any employer who disobeyed: WPB could deny him materials; OPA could limit his gasoline rations; other federal agencies could prevent him from negotiating war contracts. WMC also could give his employes automatic "certificates of availability" so that they would be free to quit (this threat has already been invoked twice in New York...
...meeting broke up and the bowed men filed out, some of them in tears, De Gaulle sidled up to Churchill and begged for a word. Resistance could go on, he said; France was battered but not beaten. Would Churchill stand behind him if he tried to bind the falling parts together, arrest the toboggan of doom? Churchill knew almost nothing of this stiff, self-conscious giant. Gloomily he gestured his agreement. A British destroyer took De Gaulle to England...
...people are ahead of Congress, which is now impeding any clear post-war commitment," he continued. "Now is the precise time when we should make these commitments to bind us in advance of a stampede of reaction which will be certain to follow the war. If the war should drag on for any considerable length of time, and its lessons forgotten, statutory declarations now will make the wave of reaction less intense...