Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...domestic planks were cut pretty much to the policies of Robert Taft. The party reasserted its belief in "minimum" government controls and in the U.S. competitive system, the "mainspring of material well-being and political freedom." At the same time Republicans pledged themselves to protect "both workers and employers against coercion and exploitation," recognized the responsibilities of the Federal Government in housing, conservation, public health, security for the aged. But they vested final control of such matters in the states, not in Washington bureaucracy...
...erring pupils, "Why didn't you give me a break so I could give you a break?"), Powers is an old Latin School student himself, has been on the faculty since 1906. The Powers prescription for scholastic success: hard work on a classical curriculum with a minimum of electives and no frilly courses...
...Stadium he spoke before 20,000 Swedish-Americans who were celebrating the 100th anniversary of Swedish immigration to the Midwest. He pulled out that surefire issue-Communism-and used it as a sort of moral prop for his civil-liberties program, for slum clearance, old-age pensions, and higher minimum wages. The audience was friendly but calm...
...Commencement Day of 1948 it is that such a development must not happen. The ideal national course--aid to the actual democratic socialistic parties as well as the present governments of Western Europe--is perhaps too much realistically to hope for faced with our prevailing political temper. A minimum of desirability in United States policy, however, cannot, and must not, be permitted to seem too much to hope for. An overwhelming vote by the House Appropriations Committee should restore the European Recovery grant to its original amount. United action by the House and the Senate should then be secured with...
...Garance Arletty is, first of all, overwhelmingly beautiful. And with a minimum of gesture and the subtlest of facial expression she gives a moving portrayal of the mysterious and unattainable woman who is the spring of every other character's action. The other parts are just as perfectly played...