Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recommend the establishment of a sweepstakes to be conducted by the Treasury, with one-half of the proceeds to be awarded as tax-exempt prizes (possibly savings bonds) and the other half to be used to cut the high taxes of all tax-tired Americans in all of our 48 states. This sweepstakes would be a practical, patriotic and voluntary way to raise dollars towards the coming fiscal year's $74 billion budget. Almost every good American is endowed with the desire to take a chance in one form or another. Sweepstakes tickets could be sold at existing state...
...plan a reorganization of the Defense Department, with help from three top military men and a number of civilians. McElroy emphasized that his advisers won't constitute another study committee--that they will act as individual consultants and that he will make the decision on what steps to recommend to President Eisenhower...
Despite major increases for defense and education, the Administration expects that the record budget can be kept in balance without tax increases. On the revenue side it will recommend continued excise taxes, will gamble that a business upswing by midyear will guarantee a higher level of tax revenue than in 1958. On the expense side, the Budget Bureau will scissor administrative non-defense spending; e.g., the Interior Department will start no new dam or reclamation projects (with the possible exception of the $400 million-plus Colorado River storage dam at Glen Canyon, Ariz.); nonessential defense spending for "chrome trimmed" military...
However, it names the five fields which weigh these additional requirements most seriously, and recommend the lowest percentage of their highly graded students for highest honors. These fields are Biochemical Sciences, English, History, Government, and Economics...
...bright labor side, Mitchell promised "that this Administration will not propose and in fact will vigorously oppose any legislation designed to bust unions . . . We will not recommend a so-called national right-to-work law and we will oppose such legislation if it is proposed." Neither would he support any attempt, he said, to apply antitrust laws to unions...