Word: exert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall proposals, so far as the total European economy is concerned, is great. But the greater danger is the far more dangerous, and more probable, chance that the plans will never win Capitol Hill, or the nation. There is the possibility that the voters, if sufficiently aroused, could exert enough pressure to obtain the money necessary to implement the proposals the President's advisers, and the European statesmen, are considering; but the plan must be sold first, and few real attempts in that direction have been made. To convince a people already groaning under their tax load that even more...
Quite obviously, this strengthened U.P.W.A. in the Canal Zone. It also raised the question of the influence that U.P.W.A.'s President Abram Flaxer and other Communist-wired leaders exert in the Zone. Not all Local 713's members would fall for it. The Local's secretary-treasurer, Edward Gasking, a Negro schoolteacher, said that if the union's U.S. leaders urged action hostile to Canal Zone interests, "we'd throw them bodily...
...record against any tax cut at this time. So had John Snyder. Clark Clifford agreed. They could think of several reasons for vetoing: Congress had not yet completed action of major appropriation bills, did not yet know how much revenue it would need; tax cuts now might exert new inflationary pressures; future foreign commitments would probably knock all budget plans into a cocked hat. But tax reduction was a political inflammable, and dangerous to tamper with. Truman's veto of the tax bill might singe his political fingers. Asked Manhattan's Daily News: "Will Truman shoot Santa Claus...
...forthcoming publication of this book and the wide coverage the Symposium has already received in the music columns of major newspapers indicate that it may exert a strong influence on thinking in the music world. Exactly how it will affect actual criticism cannot be foretold, but as the meetings progressed it became increasingly evident that the discussions were taking place on two levels...
...Federal aid, but no federal interference," was the opinion of B. U. President Marsh. Also unfamiliar with President Conant's remarks, he stated, however, that government help is needed "in some places," and felt that it will exert a salutary influence as long as the actual educational reins remain in the hands of the local authorities...