Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to recruit Negroes for the YRC at Registration by using a line involving Lincoln and the freeing of the Slaves, it was hardly discrimination on the part of the YRC to ask him not to continue his act. At least two of Fisher's other points cannot be gotten past so easily, however...
...which had almost complete support throughout the country. It called for Federal subsidies to local or state governments for 500,000 units of public housing per year for the next four years. Only those with incomes less than $2100 a year would be eligible, a group which speculative builders cannot pretend to cater to, for rents would not have exceeded $32 per month...
...solution to the housing problem. Though long overdue, any program must be long range and well organized. All public measures must aim primarily at stimulating the private builder, for only he can supply the largest proportion of needed homes. Federal aid should provide for the income groups which he cannot help, partly because of inflated building costs. There must be Federal coordination from the top to aid and advise local groups, to plan better cities, and to prevent destruction of present facilities even for the purpose of improving them. No Utopia is in sight, but the 81st Congress, when...
...hours to make an item libel-proof, or to tone down the libel until it is not worth suing over. Editors seldom ask Pearson for his proof. They know he will fight the case for them if they are sued. It is not altruism on his part. He cannot afford to lose many suits and stay in business. "But when someone shows me I'm wrong," he says, "I retract in a hurry." If he is sure he is right, he stands pat against threats and legal action...
...estate of a decrepit Fascist nobleman; and they are finally held captive by an anti-Fascist fugitive, Renato Spinelli, who fears that they would unwittingly betray him if he let them go. The haggard Spinelli plans a heroic public death for himself, since he knows that he cannot escape. But Frances falls in love with him and persuades him to try to escape with her, only to involve them both in disaster...