Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Humphrey is in for a lively second term. As a businessman (ex-President of Cleveland's far-flung M. A. Hanna Co.), he stands for a minimum of government control and for taxes low enough to encourage broad investment opportunities and individual initiative. By now he has come to recognize the high stakes and high cost involved in cold war, is willing to postpone tax cuts and settle for a balanced (if bigger) national budget and a fiscal policy that keeps a tight checkrein on inflation. Nonetheless it is plain that Humphrey is not happy with the course...
...Since then, he has built a healthy respect for the long-moribund Labor Department by 1) keeping hands off in labor disputes so collective bargaining can work (but operating quietly behind the scenes to help it work), and 2) championing such pro-labor proposals as Taft-Hartley revisions, expanded minimum-wage coverage, improved unemployment compensation. His fellow Republicans listen with increased respect since, after diligent Mitchell campaigning, the G.O.P. made heavy inroads in Eastern and Midwestern industrial areas...
...Graduate School of Public Health has set as its minimum endowments needs a $2.5 million increase over the present total of $6.1 million, Dean John C. Snyder declared in his annual report to President Pusey...
...period would provide the chance to revitalize the tutorial program, the most intelligent way to incorporate independent study for all into the course-grade system, and a great opportunity for giving purpose to the House system. During this winter period, college-wide extra-curricular activities should be at a minimum (The CRIMSON, for instance, should publish only twice each week), and instead House discussion groups would give some intellectual life to Houses which now are chiefly places to sleep, to eat, and perhaps to produce a few plays...
...military regime tried to regain its popularity by sponsoring a mammoth welfare agency, fixing and enforcing minimum wages, building roads and schools. But the military men also lavished benefits on themselves: U.S. jet planes, Swedish destroyers, post-exchange luxuries. Rojas and other high officers profited by the easy loans and business tips that their power brought them. As the President's affluence grew, so did his ego; he started a Third Force political party, requiring followers to take an oath of loyalty "before God" to him. Rojas attacked old-party politicians with rising fury, and when six army trucks...