Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's recommendations on labor law, which went to Congress this week, were cut out of the same cloth as his State of the Union message. He recognized that the Wagner Act, passed "by bipartisan majorities" in 1935, was necessary to protect the workingman. He noted that the Taft-Hartley Act, passed "by bipartisan majorities"*i n 1947, was necessary to cope with the new power of unions. Taft-Hartley is sound legislation, Eisenhower said, but experience gained under it "indicates that changes can be made to reinforce its basic objectives...
...strap and every Duke applied in the room is basically the same. The ankle wrap has really no possible variation. At Yale they put on the Duke with the player standing, at Dillon with the player lying down, but it's the same Duke. They both are intended to protect weak ligaments...
...conferences have always foundered. The line has clamored for an immediate outlawing of atomic bombs (the West's prime lever against vast Soviet armies), while the Russians have fought any effort to set up a system of inspection which would insure real international control of the atom and protect the world against the Russians' breaking their promise...
...there can be no such thing as long-range military security without economic stability, they put a high priority on sound money. Treasury Secretary Humphrey, who left the chairmanship of Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. to take command in that sector, figured that the best way to protect the dollar was to snuff out the last traces of inflation. His methods: 1) pushing interest rates upward, and 2) spreading the $270 billion national debt, concentrated 75% in securities coming due within five years, into longer-term maturities in order to take money out of circulation...
Ever since presidential press conferences were put on a regular basis by Woodrow Wilson, reporters have been hampered by some form of restriction preventing them from quoting the President directly. There was good reason for the precaution. It helped protect the President from slips of the tongue that might later embarrass him or the U.S. During the Roosevelt Administration, a standard rule was put into effect that was followed for more than 20 years: newsmen may paraphrase what the President says, but may not quote him directly. Last week the rule was changed. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that...