Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vandenberg amendment was a compromise. "The military committee's only power," Vandenberg explained, "is to say 'Stop, look and listen" . . . the minimum consideration of national defense which this situation requires...
Last week the Senate: CJ Ignoring the President's veto threat, tacked a rider to the minimum wage bill permitting a farmer to include farm labor costs in computing parity prices. CJ Received a Banking Committee recommendation that Harry Truman's old friend and naval aide, Commodore James K. ("Commodore Cluck") Vardaman, be confirmed for a 14-year term on the Federal Reserve Board...
...wings of the stage Reuther told newsmen his program, which included Reuther drives for i) a minimum national wage, 2) conversion of war plants to prefabricated housing ($2,500 houses, 2,000,-ooo people at work), 3) his theory that ability to pay should be a heavy factor in determining wages...
Admittedly, the new proposal would be difficult to work out in satisfactory detail. But by providing a practical quid pro quo, the plan dodged one sort of difficulty. By placing a minimum reliance on international inspection, the plan greatly reduced another objection. And by providing that, in case the whole scheme failed, no nation would suddenly find itself in greater peril than it would otherwise, the plan avoided the greatest objection...
Says Capp, who insists he really is a Tracy fan: "Anybody who says Gould isn't a great artist is just crazy. He sets out to tell an honest horror story and he does it, with force and a minimum of trouble. And it's just plain horrible. It's the only comic strip I read...