Word: needed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curse. For months, Sawyer had been making the chicken-a-la-king circuit of businessmen's luncheons, often talking "off the record," but to big crowds, of the need for reducing Government spending. He even ventured some tentative criticism of the Administration's Brannan Plan. Last week for all to hear, he briskly announced: "The President has requested me to take the lead in designing a program to preserve and strengthen free enterprise...
...idea that any increase in purchasing power of any one group is good no matter what its effect may be on other groups. To assume, however, that we can continue at all times and places to increase the share of the worker and the farmer without concern for the need for capital savings and the incentive of the businessman is out of keeping with the liberal attitude...
...have to get back to a free evaluation of the individual. If I look around at my four or five best friends, I find that two or three of them are Jews . . . I am their friend because between us there exists the human relationship of love. We need the courage to love. Hate stems from a sluggishness of the heart; it is cheap and easy. Love is always a risk, but only a risk brings victory...
...many places the peasants clashed with police; there were hundreds of arrests and nearly a score dead. Communist agitators were among the land-grabbing peasants; but most were moved by a genuine, desperate need. Italy, though greatly recovered under Marshall Plan aid, was still far from raising enough food for her teeming, fast-breeding folk. Yet about 4,000,000 acres of land, held by a handful of wealthy owners, still lay idle or were worked by antiquated methods...
...audience of over 500 at Cambridge High and Latin heard former Federal Communication Commission Chairman James L. Fly, LL.B. '26, writer-director Norman Corwin, and commentator Quincy Howe '21, emphasize the need for radio to change its ways...