Word: rejections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the war was still on, opponents feared that peacetime conscription might be rushed through Congress while the nation was in a mood to clutch at any military straw. Now a new possibility appeared: would the nation reject the idea by default, without ever agreeing that it was either good or bad? At week's end an Associated Press poll of Senators showed 25 in favor of the plan, 19 opposed, 40 undecided and in no hurry to make up their minds...
...timed. The six-month waltz of Congress with the Missourian in the White House was definitely over. Democrats (notably Southerners) had boldly walked off the reservation and joined Republicans on the warpath. Last week the House Ways & Means Committee (14 Democrats and ten Republicans) voted 18-to-6 to reject the President's reconversion proposal: unemployment compensation up to $25 a week for 26 weeks. Then the Committee voted 14-to-10 to shelve further consideration of aid to the jobless, including the bill the Senate had chopped out of the Truman recommendations (TIME, Sept...
...invited to open National Savings Week in seaside Swanage. The Viscount did not say what he was supposed to say on such an occasion-quite the opposite. Cried he: "If the appeal to you . . . is national savings for the nationalization of the mines, my counsel to you is to reject it. If the appeal is national savings for a state-owned merchant marine or inland transport system or medical service, I would turn it down. I believe that nationalization is a fatal policy, fatal to enterprise, fatal to efficiency, fatal to the independent spirit of the worker...
...agree, and insist, that radio must have just as much freedom of speech as . . . newspapers. But radio and printed advertising are two different things. The eye of the reader can reject an advertisement with a split-second glance. . . . The listener has no such easy choice...
...Japanese prepared to lay down their arms in China, Yenan crackled with defiance. Communist Commander in Chief Chu Teh roughly rejected the nominal authority of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. To Chungking he wired: your order not to take independent action in accepting Japanese surrender (TIME, Aug. 20) "does not conform to the national interest. . . . You have issued the wrong order, very wrong, indeed, and we have to reject it resolutely...