Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowles proposed that wartime controls be replaced by a "broad and far-reaching" program to: 1) put a floor under wages and prices-in effect, a combined OPA and WLB in reverse; 2) remove any ceiling on public works. For the long pull he joined Alvin Hansen, Beardsley Ruml et al in proposing that Government shall keep the U.S. economy in balance by lowering taxes and increasing expenditures in slumps, upping taxes and reducing expenditures in booms. He declared flatly that government must always play the "central role" in the economy...
...then unrecognized Russian Or thodox Church. He doggedly insisted on peace with Bolshevism as the price for the Church's survival. His years of patient waiting were rewarded last year with the official restoration of the Church, his own formal recognition as Patriarch (TIME, Sept. 13 et seg.). A great theological scholar, he last month challenged the Pope as vicar of Christ, proposed a union of churches under one leader chosen from among bishops of the world's capitals...
...Committeeman arid no more ardent a defender of minority rights than Dies himself, proposed that the committee become a permanent House institution. But there was grave doubt that anybody but Demagogue Dies could persuade reluctant fellow Congressmen to keep on financing investigations into the "unAmerican activities" of Walter Winchell et...
...Unless they find some real check on Big Power politics in the air as elsewhere the Little Powers (Canada, et a/.) are going to have to take what the U.S. and Britain offer...
...west the French want to be a center of direct and practical cooperation while they want to be permanent allies in relation to the east-that is to say first in relation to dear and powerful Russia." De Gaulle's loving phrase in French: ". . . la chère et puissante Russie...