Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right of this position is the University of Chicago conservative school, named after its home base. The most famous Chicagoan is Milton Friedman. This school believes free markets are usually more effective than central planning and government intervention and opposes most of the welfare state measures supported by Harvard liberals...
...employees have ridden buses into Washington and Manhattan to picket against the takeover, urged on by United Steelworkers President I.W. Abel. Republican Senators Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Robert Taft of Ohio, where Copperweld operates two plants, have issued statements supporting the Pittsburgh firm. Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp sent a wire to Smith stating his belief that Imetal wants Copperweld "as a source of cash only and has no intention of reinvesting profits in the U.S." Pennsylvania Congressman John Dent recently held hearings in the Pittsburgh suburb of Glassport to enable Copperweld workers and suppliers, many in hard hats...
...States and he had to go to Canada to teach; Lionel Trilling recalled in an article in Commentary that he was the first Jew appointed to the English department a Columbia. The Harvard Law School did not appoint another Jew after Felix Frankfurter until 1939, when Paul Freund and Milton Katz were named assistant professors. The limitation in the academic job market in turn served as an excuse to limit the number of Jewish students in graduate school, the argument being, "Why train people who cannot get jobs...
...down inflations is questioned in a chapter titled "The New Economics at High Noon." Galbraith argues that the reluctance of governments to raise taxes or cut spending during booms proves "the fatal inelasticity of the Keynesian system." Monetary policy is dismissed as "a perverse and unpredictable lever" and Economist Milton Friedman's carefully documented thesis that rapid expansion of a nation's money supply contributes to inflation is rejected as "breathtakingly simple...
...Unifier. Humphrey benefits, of course, from the weakness of the competition. The seven announced candidates -Udall, Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, Jimmy Carter, Milton Shapp, Terry Sanford and Fred Harris -have not aroused any enthusiasm in an electorate supposedly yearning for a new face. And with Ted Kennedy repeatedly rejecting all talk of a campaign, Humphrey is increasingly seen as a unifier who can keep the factious Democratic Party together. He still maintains loyal support among labor, blacks and farmers. Says a staffer on the national committee: "Any other candidate who depended on support from these groups would find Humphrey...