Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats will be denounced as radical New Dealers who favor an overbearing federal government and creeping socialism. Their proposals for a $1.10 minimum wage, increases in social security, and expanded slum clearance will be described as starry-eyed Utopianisms, derived from Marx or worse. Their candidates will be labeled "soft on communism...
...Republicans will not get off much easier. It will be said that they are reactionary successors to Herbert Hoover and may lead us into another Great Depression. Proposals for a $.90 minimum wage, more moderate increases in social security, and more limited public housing will be characterized as timid, reactionary, and dictated by big-business interests...
...third, which encompasses the period from 1932 to the present day, reflects a general acceptance of governmental responsibility for minimum standards of living and opportunity and for the full use of our human and capital resources within a system of private ownership...
...domestic political consensus," he said, is essentially "an agreement on the 'Welfare State.'" He maintained that both parties agree on the "first of the underlying premises of the New Deal: that the federal government is responsible for certain minimum standards for all Americans...
West Germany has made great progress in establishing facilities for summer study since the war. Students' expenditure can be kept at a minimum of $60 monthly...