Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that they do not advocate violent overthrow of the Government. Whether they thought it was funny or not, the joke was on them. For two years Congress has written into various appropriation bills a requirement that Federal wage earners be required to take an oath of innocence in this regard...
Some people, moreover, regard price rises as not only good business but good economics. Cornell's Professor Frank A. Pearson believes that free prices are the safest means of adjusting supply to demand even in a war economy. Last fortnight, in the Harvard Business Review, Leon Henderson and OPM Purchasing Chief Donald Nelson, in a joint article expounding Government price philosophy ("the results of our thinking thus far"), agreed that free prices were still the best medicine for some defense problems. Example: mercury, where a doubling of price has doubled production, and zinc, where a 60% price increase reopened...
...Most serious of all, it leads to a post-war deflation. Another of those, said Henderson and Nelson, "would without doubt bring about some profound changes in our economic and social system, changes which most of us certainly do not regard as desirable...
American Legion Commander Milo J. Warner: "We [admonish] . . . textbook authors not to regard it as their province to use the schoolroom as a sounding board whereon the glories of the collectivist society shall be preached...
Fifteen months after the Japanese invaded China, Chiang Kai-shek told his nation: "Future historians will, I believe, regard our war of resistance as the most significant event in this period of world history, since by our enormous sacrifices we are contributing not only to the good of the Chinese nation but also to the welfare of all mankind. ... If we succeed, we shall not only be able to build a new China but we shall also contribute immeasurably to the peace of the world...