Word: freer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Give the President authority to reduce tariffs for a two-year period, which he requested in his special message to the Congress on the foreign economic policy. I, no less than the President, believe that we should, wherever possible, encourage freer exchange of goods and services between ourselves and foreign countries...
Formosa is not as politically free as the Philippines or Japan, but it is freer than South Korea. The press can and does criticize, so long as it does not appear to Chiang Kai-shek as obstructing the national effort or damaging the prestige of the government. After all, Chiang reminds critics...
Since the depression, Western nations have accepted the necessity of freer trade. The need for economic strength in the Cold War has only confirmed this belief, yet under the sway of particular interests, the United States has failed to lower its tariffs on many products manufactured by her allies. Consequently, despite forty billion dollars spent in aid, these countries can neither develop industrially nor purchase needed American products. The result is often a lower standard of living and resentment of "Yankee imperialism." Besides weakening Western defense in general, high tariffs have hurt American exporters in particular, since some foreign markets...
Under circumstances that were normal over the last decade, the Eisenhower Administration's bill to extend and liberalize foreign trade would have had clear sailing in the U.S. Senate's Finance Committee. A clear majority of the committee has long favored freer trade. But this year, with businessmen in a swivet over revived competition from Europe and Japan (a West Virginian moaned that Japan will destroy the U.S. marblemaking industry), the pressures on the 15 committee members have been tremendous...
...criminals to take refuge in "mental disease." Actually, if properly administered, the Durham rule would not necessarily have such results; in many cases, the defense would have a hard time proving a direct cause-and-effect relationship between the mental illness and the crime. The Durham rule, by allowing freer psychiatric testimony, might also undermine many defense attempts based on "irresistible impulse." which in the past has been responsible for some highly questionable acquittals. Said the Circuit Court's opinion: "Juries will continue to make moral judgments . . . But in making such judgments, they will be guided by wider horizons...