Word: perilousness
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...World's Shmoo." Taft and Malone were in a lonely minority. The only real debate came over an amendment which would retain the "peril-point" procedure added to the bill last year by the Republican 80th Congress. Under this provision, the Tariff Commission determines how far a tariff can be reduced without "threatening serious injury" to the U.S. industry concerned. The President can go below the peril point in negotiating reciprocal trade treaties, but if he does, he must publicly report his reasons to Congress...
...President came right back. He did not invoke the national emergency sections of Taft-Hartley, he said, because there was no "immediate peril" with so much steel around. His idea was to find a solution before matters reached a critical state. Said the President: "Surely you are not afraid to have your side of this dispute examined in the public interest." Again, Fairless & Co. refused the presidential request...
...designed only to secure practical results in the interests of a particular national and political system . . . The new social-political orthodoxy is . . . inimical to the free spirit of science. There is now a scientific party line in the U.S.S.R., and those who stray from it do so at their peril...
...Cowardly & Illogical." Taft called such a notion "cowardly, pusillanimous and illogical." His own proposition would cross the t's and dot the i's: in the event of peril to the nation, the President should be permitted to enjoin strikers and/or seize plants for a period of 60 days. Hard-pressed Majority Leader Lucas tried to win last-minute friends to the Administration's Thomas bill giving the President power to seize plants (usually a more potent weapon against management than labor). Florida's Spessard Holland wanted an amendment to do just the opposite and permit...
...Arcopagitica" (1644), of Jefferson's First Inaugural (1801), and of Mill's "Essay on Liberty" (1859). She thinks that repression is not wise or workable under our system, that wide latitude for conflicting views affords the best chance for good government, and that in suppression usually lies the greater peril. Harvard is not afraid of freedom, and believes adherence to this principle to be fundamental for our universities and for the integrity of our institutions...