Word: meant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Different Clothes. Fairless was for "proper" insurance and pension programs. By "proper" he meant programs to which the workers themselves contributed something. As for noncontributory welfare programs which provided benefits for the workers "at the expense of someone else" (i.e., management), this was "a revolutionary doctrine of far-reaching and serious consequences...
With the backing of influential, politically ambitious Inquirer Publisher Walter Annenberg, he set out to work a minor revolution: nominating new men for Philadelphia's key "row offices"-controller, city treasurer, coroner and register of wills. This meant scuttling an old party wheelhorse, Controller Frank J. Tiemann, who was up for re-election in November. Meade refused to give him the party blessing for the primary. In the process, Meade almost lost one of his strongest political allies, heavy, red-faced Sheriff Austin Meehan. "Frank's my pal," cried the sheriff. "He's in trouble...
Cripps said that the sacrifices involved in devaluation would be wasted if production costs were allowed to rise. By this he meant that appeals for wage increases must be rejected. The alternative would be "unemployment . . . bankruptcy . . . fear and misery." Nevertheless, wage-freezing in the face of rising living costs was the bitterest part of his message for home consumption...
...told an overflow congregation in the Martin Luther Church: "We must break our ties with the day before yesterday, for it contained the seed that became the curse of yesterday. Let us create a new day in which God's will prevails." By "the day before yesterday" he meant the Weimar republic...
...show what he meant, Doyle pointed to a glaring example of life-adjustment claims in a recent article in This Week magazine. The article was "full of the usual cliches such as 'learning as much about children as Chaucer' . . . and suspicious statistics." A "family-living" course in a Michigan high school, for instance, was credited with having cut the divorce rate among graduates, yet the life-adjustment "revolution" was only four years old. "How early do [they] marry?" Doyle wanted to know...