Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would also attempt to keep outrages such as the New York court ruling from botching up the writers' works. Cain's ebullience overboiled when he thought of financing these functions by levies on publishers and theatrical and movie producers, and of eventually taxing them enough to provide a minimum yearly salary for writers. But the Screen Writers' Guild, an organization whose "communist leadership" is mythical, recently decided to rewrite the proposal "in better form" and more to the taste of publishers and producers. This should silence those who holler "Petrillo" whenever they hear of the Authority...
Freshmen now move through the Harvard Union lines with maximum speed and minimum waits, but they still have ample time to enjoy the appetizing side-show put on by students dumping trays on the way out. With rare insight into the psychology of hunger, the Union management has arranged for trays to be dumped under the noses of incoming lines, and the gradually growing piles of half-consumed food made slushy by left-over gravy is a pre-meal feature wondrous to behold...
...voting age for the first time in University history, gov. lectures and ordinary bull sessions can find practical application in the polling booths on November 2. This year's electorate has a novel newcomer, the student-voter, who can base his choice upon a maximum of principle and a minimum of self-interest. The important reasons for voting are obvious to all, and newspaper and radio should provide the information necessary for the intelligent voter to decide which levers to pull on election...
...Support all proposals which embody the minimum essentials of federal world government...
...Wallace-inspired foreign policy (withdraw U.S. troops from China; combat "imperialism" wherever found; extend economic aid to war-devastated countries; eliminate the step-by-step proposal of the Baruch atom control plan); a New Dealing domestic policy (price & rent controls; a federal civil rights bill; extended social security; minimum wages; soak-the-rich taxation); 3) a resolution applauding Henry Wallace. A permanent committee of 50 would be appointed after the November elections to keep the ball rolling...