Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baldwin Touch. The Conservatives denounced controls and praised free enterprise, but they rarely descended from generalities. Arguing about denationalization of already nationalized industries, one speaker brushed off a tough problem with oldtime Tory nonchalance: "If I don't like my eggs scrambled, I'll throw them away and prepare another dish to my choice." That was an unfortunate simile; few Britons these days have any eggs to throw away...
...directly opposed by Fitzgerald, who has been endorsed by the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. Fitzgerald, a former President of the Boston City Council and former acting mayor of Boston, is trying to pull Boston back into the Democratic column. He is campaigning for large federal education bill providing free lunches, medical aid, and transportation for sectarian schools; Saltonstall opposed this provision. In their foreign policy the two men are fairly close. Both support full appropriations for the Marshall Plan, and both favor putting teeth in the United Nations. Fitzgerald makes two specific proposals for the U.N. One would require only...
...simple that it was hard to believe. So when the Free Enterprise Society had an open meeting last week to recruit new members, I went over to hear its officers talk and see if maybe the President's remarks last winter had been brought on, like lots of other comas, by overwork and cold weather. My quest was not in vain. Towards the end of the meeting, the new President, having warmed up with a lot of purely preliminary inanities, cleared his throat and revealed to the assembled multitude that "government is here to stay, to some extent," which...
...wondering what all this proves. At least, you ought to be. The Free Enterprise Society is small, it is not highly organized, it loves our "American system" and hates any kind of totalitarianism, fascistic, communistic, or otherwise, and even if it were fascistic, as a few people seem to think it is, it doesn't have enough influence to matter. So why bother with...
...maybe you're right. But when it came out at their meeting that the Society at Harvard had a lot to do with getting one started at Princeton, and that another one has popped up at Yale, and that the boys are now trying to get Free Enterprise Societies set up in other colleges all over the country, and that once they've done that, they think maybe they'll organize the whole works into a unified movement--when all this came out, and when I saw the industry they were putting into the different projects, getting out booklets...