Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry's best friends in Congress disagreed. Vermont's Senator Ralph K. Flanders, himself an industrialist, reminded the steel managers that they had a responsibility beyond making money for their stockholders. Said he: "Apparently the steel industry does not yet realize.. . . that its decisions on prices must be in the public interest as well as its private interest." A top Republican policymaker in Congress, who had been neck-deep in the fight to take and keep controls off business, cried: "A cynical stunt ... a damned fool thing to do." Senator Robert A. Taft swiftly announced that...
...House Foreign Affairs Committee, he explained exactly what that "necessary action" should be. Said Marshall in plain, undiplomatic language: "It is fundamental . . .to develop a basis of government [in China] not restricted to a small group and to clean up waste and corruption. But even more important, it must give definite, active consideration to the land problems of the peasantry. . . . This is critical from a purely military point of view. You can't win guerrilla warfare with the people against...
...must be given a chance to grow under stable and prosperous conditions," said Bonnet. "Only when the hungry of the world are fed and the ragged are dressed can be possibilities of a world of nations be achieved...
...Committee must first weigh the value of the training that the bill proposes. The part that UMT will take in the shaping of the individual trainee's personality is a comparatively minor matter. Certainly six months of boredom, frustration, and close order drill will mold the conscriptee into neither a "fine upstanding youth" nor a "neo-fascist" unless he had strong tendencies in one of those directions at the outset...
...Rules Committee must not stop there. It must further examine the value of UMT in terms of the United States' traditionally non-militaristic role in world affairs. Even if UMT would from a well-trained, efficient, aggressive nucleus for a future army to fight a future war, it could not heop but provide simultaneously an additional impetus to the complicated forces that are inexorably herding the world toward hostility, aggression, and unless halted, towards eventual conflict. The United States has traditionally avoided peacetime conscription. Consequently, the adoption of UMT would be tantamount to an admission that we consider peace more...