Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Dulles said was: Unless the trend to "statism" is checked, "Our children and grandchildren [will have to fight] their way back, a bloody way against the all-powerful state ... I don't believe that we need to have a violent revolution, certainly not today. The people still have it in their power peacefully to check [statism...
...thing she was in for: raising money (Wellesley was after $7½ million, Barnard $5,000,000, Smith $7,000,000). She would find little comfort in the fact that all her fund-raisers are women. What U.S. women need, former President Horton had found, is a "psychological catching-up" about money. "They are too used to writing out household checks-for $10 or $20. The trouble is that you can't run a college on household checks...
Many a businessman agreed with Rockefeller that the program was a noble idea. But they also agreed that U.S. investors would need more assurance that they wouldn't lose their shirts, or have them nationalized, in foreign ventures. This week, the Administration will try to provide some of that assurance. Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas said the Senate would take up a bill to empower the Export-Import Bank to guarantee foreign investments against 1) inability to convert profits into dollars, and 2) confiscation by foreign governments. Prospects were good for Senate approval...
...another Times ad, Callahan asked plaintively: "What's the matter with Montana? . . . Don't they like flats in Montana? . . . Aren't legs a national tradition? Montana, Montana, please write." Wrote one embittered Missoula man: "I don't think our women need these flats. Their feet are flat enough . . . Most of them go barefooted out here...
While the Commission on Saturday adhered to its stand on Communist teachers, it "wished also to emphasize again that citizens should be especially alert at this time to defend the essential need of their schools for freedom of teaching and learning...