Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compliments. He was annoyed at Scott Lucas. "Why, oh why do they make statements when they go out of here?" he asked an aide plaintively. Truman got Lucas on the phone, brushed aside his explanations, and laid down the law. There would be no adjournment, Truman said, until his minimum program was passed. That included federal aid to education, housing and slum clearance and a 75/ minimum wage. He wanted at least a token civil-rights bill- either antilynching or anti-poll tax. Truman conceded that there was no chance this session for his health program, major civil-rights legislation...
...good." His message was simple and uncompromising: capitalism, with its foundations in usury and its dehumanizing of man by machines, is just as bad for mankind as socialism with its depersonalizing state. Workers, he thought, should leave the factories and work the land in agrarian communities retaining the barest minimum of private property. Participation in modern war he held to be always wrong-all Christians should be pacifists. And the best state of all for a Christian, said Peter Maurin, is voluntary poverty...
...books a year. Press runs usually hover around 5,000. Yet such midget firms as Prime Press in Philadelphia, Fantasy Press in Reading, Pa. and Shasta Press in Chicago eke out profits from their small printings, for two reasons: 1) they keep advertising and other overhead costs to a minimum, and 2) they can count on regular patronage from their own rabid fans...
...Levine with his Schenley Reserve down. Levine had slashed the price from $4.05 to $3.75 a fifth. That was less than he was permitted to sell it for under New York's "fair trade" law which, like price-fixing laws in 44 other states, permits manufacturers to set minimum retail prices...
...Band member, Joseph J. Borgotti, Jr. '45, a former manager, and William J. Reinhardt '47, will be selling "Half Time" Albums and soliciting alumni throughout the New England area in an effort to raise enough funds to send at least 80 men west. If the $25,000 minimum cannot be raised, no Band members will play at Stanford...