Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Based upon debates and votes in the committee, the report presented both sides of the question, but deferred any strong recommendation because the final vote was so nearly equal. Out of the 42 men who make up the committee, 21 Juniors and 21 Seniors, 55 per cent favored the three-term years...
Reported to involve a cut as high as 50 per cent, the rationing system will probably be similar to the present sugar allotment plan which allows institutions a certain percentage of their former...
...impossible under the present system of labor pirating. It can only be done by a direct exercise of authority. This authority must be based to prevent such steals as the one which occurred in Detroit recently when 52 toolmakers were lured from their jobs by a thirty cent hourly wage bribe. It must be used to forbid employers from hiring away workers except by express permission of the production authorities. It must train clerks and shopgirls as welders and machinists, and send them where they are most urgently needed. It must assure adequate farm labor to produce the food necessary...
...Right now, say in October, we might storm the Continent and lose a couple of corps in doing it, but we would be there and we would push ahead. It might be a good idea to lose thousands and thousands, to martyr a per cent of our forces in order to chop a couple of years off the war. The casualties would be large but they would have to be suffered. . . . The martyr idea and the reduction of the war by two years might be a good plan, but remember I said it might...
...President's over-all program requested the return of farm prices to parity, guaranteeing the farmer's dollar the same purchasing power as in 1914. Last year's price bill set the figure at 110 per cent of parity, and food costs immediately shot up. Defense of this legislative larcency was to be expected, but the farm bloc then insisted on 112 per cent by writing in a clause that wages to labor should be included in costs. Since only a few thousand well-to-do farmers hire laborers for pay, this proviso is both arbitrary and unnecessary. Only this...