Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '37, asso- Both men agreed that the main enemy of freedom is power. They disagreed, however, on whether this power which is "inevitable, being brought about by the increasing industrialization of our economy," should be given back to private hands or taken to the Government...
...commodity a farmer can market, if he wants to receive subsidy benefits. This method, in effect, gives the farmers monopoly powers. Under the Brannan plan, the quota system would be greatly expanded. This part of the plan has raised the howl of "government control" in Congress. The main argument against the quota system is that it is liable to be abused by the monopolistic groups. On the other hand, quotas give farmers protection that other producers get through tariffs, that industry gets through monopoly agreements, and that labor gets through unions...
After a classical Swan Lake and the sprightly Fancy Free, they got the main course: Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend, with Nora Kaye, the big-eyed little ballerina who has made Fall River one of Ballet Theatre's signatures as well as one of her own. She spun through the story of the gentle, murderous New England spinster ("Lizzie Borden took an ax . . .") like something out of a Freudian nightmare, and her audience loved...
...lifetime, Nathaniel Hawthorne was known as a novelist, short-story writer, and active Democratic politician; the main event in his political career was his abrupt dismissal from a customshouse job (after charges of dishonesty, incompetence and political corruption), by order of President Zachary Taylor. He was also widely known as the enthusiastic biographer of the inept and unlucky President Franklin Pierce. Hawthorne's praise of his friend Pierce was still ringing in men's ears when Pierce's administration collapsed in fiasco...
...dinner, speakers Robert Lane, director of the recent Greater Boston Survey and John Kingman '14, president of United Settlements, traded attacks. Lane urged that tax-supported agencies Lane urged that tax-supported houses as the main organ for social service work...