Word: frees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party protected business against cutthroat domestic competition by granting patents, and against foreign competition by levying tariffs. It won other votes by handouts: land to farmers as free homesteads, Treasury funds to Union soldiers as pensions. It won election after election. "What could you do with a party that had emancipated the slave, saved the Union, given everybody a bounty in land or tariff, assured businessmen of prosperity and poor men of a full dinner pail...
...argues, the party chose to support the minority against the majority. Then the party ran out of homesteads. After that, says Webb, "the Republican Party had no place at all for the farmer ... It compelled him to buy in a protected market and permitted him to sell in a free market with all the world as his competitor." Observes Webb: "Thus the Republican Party successively turned its back on one great segment of society after another, on the farmer, on small business, on labor. The party quit the people long before the people quit...
...conviction, after one unsuccessful appeal to the Circuit Court and two to the Supreme Court, Andy May was still at liberty. With his codefendants, the Garssons, he had cooked up one more dodge; they asked Washington's District Court to reduce their sentences and let them go free on probation...
...long-range objective is simply the fusion of Western Europe's separate, relatively autarchic economies into one large, American-style free trading area. Only such a single market (with an estimated 270 million customers) could sustain efficient mass production in Western Europe; it would also force Western Europe's flabby protectionist capitalism into a new, competitive way of life...
...labored a good part of his 43 years among South Africa's underdog black men. "My religion," he says, "knows no color bar." He likes to quote Paul's Epistle to the Colossians: "There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ...