Word: bogeyman
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...Bogeyman...
...Eggs" & Harry. He campaigned without fear against "Ham & Eggs" in 1939 when it was in its full flower in California. He also posed-while party workers wrung their hands-for pictures with Harry Bridges, then the state's No. 1 Bogeyman...
...Baruch insisted once again that these, and all other measures, must be coordinated into an overall, efficiently administered plan. Then he evoked the bogeyman: "The only alternative to some plan of this sort is a national service act for the drafting of labor...
...products has all the elements of a national scandal and the making of a ghastly tragedy. . . . Subsidies are the tangled net in which a free people become so enmeshed that they become helpless pawns of a dominating centralized Government." Administration talk of inflation seemed to Mr. Sexauer just a "bogeyman to induce a nation to accept social reform, regimentation, limitation of opportunity and incentive...
...anti-subsidizers' position is a complex mixture of selfishness ("a higher price for me would only add .0001% to the cost of living"); of sound economics; and of the ancient fear of free men who see the bogey of Federal controls now expanded in new areas. The bogeyman argument has some basis: when Government uses the taxpayers' money to subsidize private industry, it has a moral obligation to check on whether the money is squandered. Sample problem that then arises: if the Government subsidizes General Foods, would the taxpayers' money be wasted if General Foods advertises Post...