Word: laborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman (Mon. noon, NBC and ABC). Labor Day address...
...Retrenchment would not be accepted without a fight. The restive T.U.C. membership would argue long and harshly over their leaders' counsel. To a Washington estimate that the new economic policy would depress the British standard of living by 4%, a harassed Labor policymaker last week made a grim and exaggerated rejoinder: "Four percent! If only it were 4%-it would be paradise. The ghastly truth is that Washington would be nearer the mark if it said...
London's Economist last week complained of a problem: when it defends the Labor government against its critics, the British Socialists use it as evidence that the anti-Socialist Economist has all but gone Socialist; when it criticizes the Labor government, anti-Socialists in the U.S. cite the Economist as an authority to show that Socialism is no good. "From this dilemma there is only one escape," wrote the Economist, "and that is, for once, to give both sides of every medal...
...King suggests that instead of frightening the patient and browbeating her into passing up favorite foods, the doctor should let her eat what she wants, soothe her fears and give her "a mature, optimistic orientation." His clincher: uninhibited, free-fed women have an easier time in labor...
This week the steel companies got in their last licks. Said Robert Patterson, ex-Secretary of War and now a lawyer representing the small companies: "The facts brought out . . . make it plain that there is no fair basis for any increase in labor cost at this time...