Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Overwhelming Task. There are vital differences between Davenport and others who have had similar insights. Dissatisfaction with military and economic weapons does not lead him to conclude that such weapons should be abandoned: "Without them the entire free world would be exposed." Distrust of the faith in progress does not lead him to assert that it should be discarded, for it has "become vital to the health-indeed to the survival-of modern civilization . . . In terms of human destiny we are committed to the optimistic tradition." It is America's special task-"of truly overwhelming proportions"-to find...
Because of its limited duties, OTC is no panacea for trade problems, but it should be approved, if only to secure the faith of our thirty-three allies. If Congress does not pass the plan, ensuing distrust might lead to new and higher tariff barriers and ultimately halt the expansion of world trade. By enacting OTC and its sister proposal, the Reciprocal Trade Act, Congress could relieve the hardening of Western arteries of trade...
...around the U.S., other excited announcers offered similar "bargains"-which almost always turned out to be fakes. To admen and reputable retailers, this popular form of electronic huckstering is known as "bait advertising." Says Denver's Better Business Bureau Director Dan Bell: "The greatest single cause of consumer distrust of advertising today is the widespread use of bait tactics . . . It has been termed a national scandal in business...
...legislatures can equal the men of the French Assembly for wit, eloquence and intelligence. Many of its leaders are honored veterans of the French Resistance. Why are these courageous men unable, despite themselves, to give France a stable government? The answer is simple, but not helpful: France is deeply distrustful of a strong government. Too frequently and too recently, Frenchmen have had to man the barricades against oppression. Since 1789 France has lived under four republics, two emperors, one consulate, one directorate and three monarchies. In the France of the peasant and the petit bourgeois, where the bell jangles...
Western diplomats are candid in their distrust of Herbert Wehner, and of the interests he serves. They see him as an evil grey eminence in the SPD. But as the shrill Socialist campaign against the Paris accords spread across Germany last week, there could be little doubt that the counsels of Herbert Wehner are in the ascendant in the party hierarchy...