Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This he termed "a fair deal." The New Deal for the American people is no longer "new." It is, as Truman said, what "every segment of our population and every individual has a right to expect from his government." Truman wants to extend and correct this program. Part of his message was directed at the short-range danger of inflation and threats of a recession, but more significant was the long-range schedule of needed social legislation, proposals that will be fought all the way by the "gluttons of privilege" he blasted in the fall campaign...
...broad on lines of social goals have been stated by the Chief Executive. No one can expect the Eighty-First. Congress to fill these outlines completely. Important advances will surely be made in some areas, and the President will surely be stalled in others. Lobbyists will still be influential; an alliance of Dixiecrafts and Republicans will probably be able to block some important bills. But the importance of the state of the government this year is that now, after a brief Republican hiatus, the movement towards the human welfare society in America will continue. The President must fight just...
...CRIMSON that the various pseudo-politicos concerned with the Fisher-HYRC case have so involved themselves in charges and counter-charges that the salient point of importance in the affair has become obscured. The members of this University who voted for Mr. Fisher and who vote for other campaigners expect themselves to be represented by those who seek their vote. If Mr. Fisher and the members of the YRC planning committee had been less concerned with their politics, whatever politics 19-year-old sophomores can be sure of in their own minds, they might have realized that neither the HYRC...
When pawky Playwright Charles MacArthur became editor of Theatre Arts magazine eleven months ago, he didn't expect that all his "conditions of employment" (one of them was getting Lana Turner for his secretary) would be met. But he did expect enough cash in the till to pay the magazine's bills...
...Southerner in the Northern army he could expect little confidence to be placed in him. He had moreover recently stepped from a train and wrenched his back and could honestly have claimed a physical disability. He nevertheless renewed his Union oath. His sisters in Virginia turned his picture to the wall and refused to discuss...