Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wilson was to restrict production, but that would require an unheard-of amount of Government supervision. With the election of Roosevelt, Wilson was able to convince the incoming Agriculture Secretary, Henry Wallace, to carry out his idea. "I tell you frankly that it is a new and untrod path," Roosevelt declared in sending the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) to Congress that May, "but . . . an unprecedented condition calls for the trial of new means...
...Roosevelt who accused the President of "reckless and extravagant" spending, and of thinking "that we ought to center control of everything in Washington as rapidly as possible." Roosevelt's running mate, Congressman John Nance Garner of Texas, 63, even claimed that Hoover was "leading the country down the path of socialism." Eleanor Roosevelt best summed up her husband's uncertain command of the future when she wrote at the time of his Inauguration: "One has a tremendous feeling of going it blindly, because we're in a tremendous stream, and none of us knows where...
...path of the United Auto Workers and Detroit's carmakers toward early agreement on a new contract has not been as smooth. In a historic "agreement in principle," the U.A.W. and General Motors said in early January that they would try to find new savings in labor costs. The goal is to pass them along to consumers in the form of reduced car prices to stimulate slumping sales (see chart). Last week after nine days of intensive talks, U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser announced solemnly: "I regret to inform you that we have been unable to reach a settlement...
...fraction of America--those who stand to gain lucratively from tax breaks, both personal and business. It is ironic that Reagan chose to quote Lincoln's words to Congress on Tuesday. As Lincoln no doubt realized and as Reagan cannot understand, the "history" so "inescapable" has largely been the path toward removing oppressive, less-fortunate features of the original American compact. And now, hiding behind a wall of abstract platitudes, Reagan intends to dismantle the precious safeguards that have been tortuously erected...
...Civil Household Affairs, Ludwig warned that he would begin closing down Jari if the government did not come forth with financial assistance to help offset his infrastructure expenses. No aid came. In other ways, too, the government seemed deliberately to put obstacles and uncertainty in Ludwig's path. Authorities, for example, never legalized his title to more than half the land he had bought...