Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft was quick to reply: "Utterly unfair . . . a partisan political attack. . . . In the Act . . . the President received complete power to prevent speculation and speculative increase in prices and all increases in rents. . . . He chose to take all the chances of chaos, followed by speculative rises in prices...
...People. Could it be revived? Harry Truman made his follow-up play: he took his case to the people in another last-minute radio appeal, asked that they apply their pressure on Congressmen "to prevent inflation." An avalanche of telegrams descended on Washington (the White House reported that its wire score was 50 to 1 in favor of the President's action...
With justified pride, President Truman last week announced that the U.S. had kept its promise and that the world famine emergency had been met. What had been done was not enough to prevent widespread suffering, disease, and uncounted deaths in Europe, China, India. But the threat of mass starvation had been dispelled...
...have the whole world sorry for them. They aren't getting enough to eat. Neither are the Greeks, Dutch, Belgians, Polish, Yugoslavians, Chinese and others who have fought on our side. What kind of allies are we that we feed our enemies the food that our allies need to prevent starvation...
...platform. As early as 1940, still a Harvard senior, John F. Kennedy had ably interpreted the failures of British foreign policy as a warning to the U.S. He wrapped up his findings in a timely book: Why England Slept (because she refused to sacrifice butter for guns, to prevent a war she never really believed would come). After a war in which his older brother and brother-in-law had been killed, in which he himself had been wounded when a Jap destroyer cut his boat in half, Jack Kennedy was even more convinced that U.S. security and world peace...