Word: framework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting food requirements for Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and civilians. He takes charge of food marketing, distribution, priorities, allocations and decisions to ration. His cumbersome Agriculture Department, with all the bureaus that have grown up over the years, is simplified into a production division and a distribution division-a framework that will permit Wickard to reshape his organization for greater efficiency...
...charges began to pour in, and in 1936 Bridges was exonerated from those charges by the Department of Labor. Then in 1938 a special commission under Dean Landis of the Law School decided that he was not deportable. His methods, Landis said, were not "other than those that the framework of democratic and constitutional government permits...
...consumer-goods production, based on an overall minimum schedule of civilian needs. Ferd Eberstadt has been heckling Civilian Supply Boss Leon Henderson for just such a schedule for weeks, so far with a notable lack of success. But at least Planner Eberstadt now has a complete and sensible framework to fit a civilian-supply program into when one is finally evolved. "While this may not be the last plan," said he this week, "it is somewhere near the last. That is not because human ingenuity is limited but because human patience is limited...
Herbert Agar is not afraid to deliver a sermon. A Time for Greatness is a 300-page editorial on democracy that has the fervor and some of the moral reach of the Old Testament prophets. Two quotations set the framework of Agar's thinking...
...door remains open," said the Secretary of State for India, "for the consideration of any proposals agreed to by the leaders of the other main parties within the framework of the British Government's declaration of policy." But the Secretary of State for India did not state how a representative wartime national Government could be formed without at least a nod toward the Congress...