Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report itself glosses over many of the harsh criticisms which have been leveled against the HSA. While admitting that many of the agency directors "could not be called needy in any sense of the term," it offers no plan to correct this, but merely suggests that the practice stop. The policy of having agency directors pick their own successors with a rubber stamp approval from the board of directors is mentioned, but there follows no discussion of the possible harmful implications of this procedure. No attempt is made to evaluate the high prices of such groups as the milk...
Before and during the Depression, U.S. labor battled bravely and sometimes bloodily to win its rights and correct imbalances. But the victory was so complete that the rights were soon woven into everyday U.S. economic life. Meanwhile, the laws drawn to protect underdog labor came to serve, in big segments of the labor movement as protection for power-hungry and corrupt leaders of top-dog labor. Moreover, labor's leaders, having won their economic battle, failed to work out a philosophy going beyond oldtime A.F.L. President Samuel Gompers' antiquated one-word creed: "More." Armed with special privileges written...
Admitting that the relationships between Puerto Rico and the United States have not been refined to the highest possible degree, Munoz explained that legislation is in progress to correct the inadequacies...
...last of the regularly appointed governors of the island, calls it "The Grand Conception of Munoz Marin." Munoz had the challenging task of rallying a people split widely between the two views of statehood and complete independence, and then convincing the U.S. Congress that his solution was the correct...
...Samaritans retaliated by rejecting the Jews. They proclaimed themselves the true remnant of Israel. The Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem was not the true temple; the correct site, they said, was on Mount Gerizim, where Abraham took Isaac for sacrifice. There the Samaritans set up their own temple and held that there had been no prophet since Moses and no law save that in the Pentateuch...