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...months in office, Krag faced his supreme political test when he introduced into Parliament a complex series of measures that will 1) extend all union contracts for two years, thus limiting wage increases; 2) fix maximum prices of all consumer goods except fish and farm products; and 3) compel all taxpayers to buy up to $290 in 4% bonds that cannot be redeemed for five years...
...achieve his aims will require every bit of McNamara's brilliance and dedication. His programs may run into political objections, at home and abroad, that compel compromises or retreats; if so, he expects to be in on the decisions. Along the way to his goals, he will injure plenty of feelings, but he has thought about that too. "I see my position here'" he says, "as being that of a leader, not a judge. I'm here to originate and stimulate new ideas and programs, not just to referee arguments and harmonize interests." In his cramped, left...
These players are provided with "certain monies which we construe only to be out-of-pocket expenses in connection with the fact that we compel, of necessity, practices after school and also on Saturdays and holidays," says A. J. Anderson, general manager of the Edmonton Junior team," [monies] which insofar as we were concerned were an assistance to [the player] in completing his schooling and in defraying some of his room and board expenses...
...open club could prove immensely attractive to the developing countries," Brandt said, and could give the West the initiative at an International trade conference. He predicted that the forces of economic well-being let in motion by such a club would be the most effective way to "compel the communists to accommodate themselves to an entirely new meaning of co-existence...
...Ireland: Good old Ireland! I have tried to hold up the flag for Ireland. I introduced a resolution to try to memorialize the whole wide world, if that could be done, to compel Great Britain to give to Ireland her undivided freedom. That is the way I feel. I take my freedom straight. I am like little Johnny. His teacher asked him. "How do you spell straight?" He said. "S-T-R-A-I-G-H-T." The teacher then asked. "What does it mean?" He said. "Without ginger ale." That is the way I take my freedom. I take...