Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the basic political fact about recessions in the U.S. today is that the Federal Government is committed by law, custom, popular demand and political necessity to combatting them. Last week, confronted by a spate of plunging graphs and slipping statistics, both the White House and Capitol Hill were talking plenty of combatting. Items...
...quickest and most effective way of dealing with the recession is by means of a tax cut for lower-and middle-income groups, i.e., those groups which tend to spend almost all their income. Such a tax cut would be fed into the economy almost immediately. It would stimulate demand for goods and services, afford the best hope for stopping the current economic recession, and help to start an economic upturn. Public works are too slow. And even if taken off the shelf quickly, and even if built in the right localities, public works generally do not directly employ those...
MIDDLE EAST. When the Egyptians in 1951 launched a campaign of terrorism to drive British forces out of the Suez Canal Zone, the U.S. made clear that its sympathies lay with Egypt. Long after the British finally gave way in 1954 to Egypt's demands, Sir Anthony Eden grumbled that the negotiations had been vastly complicated by the fact each time a settlement seemed near, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery had urged Egypt's Nasser to demand better terms. Two years later, when Britain and France set out to reoccupy the Canal Zone by force, the U.S. publicly repudiated...
Responsible for the free world as it is and not as the U.S. would like it to be, the U.S. cannot indulge in the slogans or the ringing declarations that are possible to those who can demand what is desirable only because they are not charged with doing what is possible. That possibility was best formulated more than a year and a half ago by John Foster Dulles: "I believe that the role of the U.S. is to try to see that that [anticolonial] process moves forward in a constructive, evolutionary way, and does not either come to a halt...
Ovation. Listeners over 14, said Miller, are rebelling by turning off radios and programing for themselves with phonographs. He snorted at the jockeys' attempt to justify what they play by arguing that they only "give them what they want." Asked he: "Does the demand for a record come because you play it first, or do the kids demand it because they find it in the Top 40? If the Top 40 is an election, will somebody please blow the whistle for the Honest Ballot Association?" Miller's prescription for foresighted station owners: "Guide sub-teen tastes so that...