Word: curtailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Constitution? President Eisenhower's declaration led to an obvious case in point: the controversial Bricker amendment to curtail his treaty-making powers (TIME, Jan. 18), which has brought his Administration to the brink of open warfare with Congress. Defending his opposition to the amendment, Ike went back to the Constitutional Convention and put a question to the reporters: Why was the Constitution formed to replace the old Articles of Confederation? Then he answered his own question...
...wouldn't begin to accomplish their proclaimed objective of 'trade, not aid.' " A lower protective tariff, said the association, which includes Du Pont, Dow Chemical Co. and General Aniline & Film Corp., would cut back production of essential chemicals, halt expansion plans and force the industry to curtail its $204 million-a-year research program. The industry is itself the product of protective tariffs, said the report; it got its start when chemical imports from Germany were cut off in World War I, and was built up by a postwar tariff policy...
...statement released jointly by Richard S. Rosenbloom '54 of WHRB, and Aida Romanoff '54 of WRRB, the stations said that the agreement will provide for cooperative production and training efforts, but it was emphasized that the agreement in no way will curtail the stations' independent broadcasting operations...
...capita wealth of the states, the poorer receiving more aid than the richer. Discontinuing federal support would probably have no serious effect on the richer states, but the poorer states would be forced either to give up their social insurance programs completely, or at least to curtail them drastically...
...could have to drastically curtail our services in order to add just a few hours," he said...