Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of Commerce was one of the many who wondered what the President really meant by the phrase, "I do not choose to run." Since Herbert Hoover's friends were urging him to run himself, he tried to get Silent Cal to talk. Ohio Congressmen, Secretary Hoover explained, were planning to enter Hoover's name in the Ohio primary. Replied Coolidge...
...fashions. Mill discovered, were a peachy example of what he meant by tryanny of the majority. "We have discarded the fixed costumes of our forefathers; everyone must still dress like other people, but the fashion may change once or twice a year. We thus take care that when there is change it shall be for change's sake, and not from any idea of beauty or convenience; for the same idea of beauty or convenience would not strike all of the world at the same time...
With nearly 40% of all U.S. wholesale purchases taking place at prices under their OPS ceilings, Price Boss Ellis Arnall last week made a decision. Since the ceilings no longer meant anything, Arnall thought it might be just as well to take some of them off. He prepared, accordingly, orders "temporarily" suspending the ceilings on numerous items (hides, calfskins, tallow, lard, animal waste material, vegetable soap stock, crude cottonseed, soybean and corn oil, burlap, wool, alpaca...
...wholesalers (including such top brands as Birds Eye, Snow Crop, Pictsweet, etc.), then passed the goods on to freezer buyers without additional markups. Explained Maytag's Santa Fe Manager John McCauley: "We're not interested in making money on food but in selling freezers." For buyers, it meant some notable savings: 17? for frozen peas v. 23? in Santa Fe chain stores, 32? for Brussels sprouts v. 41?, 68? for salmon fillets...
...that what was once a flexible concept, tolerance, has joined the censor's list of sacrosanct doctrines. We have no quibble with advocating tolerance, a trait which many Americans lack, but lately groups like the NAACP have shorn it of much of its richest meaning. Time was when tolerance meant permitting anyone to sample whatever was thrust before him, providing that this fare was not prejudicial to the rights and privileges that a democracy ensures everyone else. But now many people are defining it as merely the absence of racial and religious discrimination, a view that is fast assuming...