Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine out of every ten undergraduates approached by HLU members signed the petition, which urged Congress to vote favorably on legislation backing the Marshall Plan and not to cut down appropriations for foreign relief...
Even before the arrival of the recently-dispatched relief ship S. S. Friend Ship to Scotland, a deluge of mail has begun to pour in from the Scots, praising the "tremendous gesture of friendship shown by the people of New England," among them University students...
...plan of his own. He proposed a flat $40 tax cut for every taxpayer (and each dependent), to be balanced by in creased corporation rates (from 38% to approximately 50%). The President's plan would not change the total of existing revenues. But it would give some tax relief to low-income taxpayers (who vote), and take it out of the hides of corporations...
...same thing itself. In the commodity markets, it was Government buying, more than anything else, that boosted grain prices. They helped pull up the wholesale commodity price index (1926 average: 100) from 141.5 to 162 in a year. No one disputed that the Government had to buy grain for relief abroad. But did it have to buy it the way it did? In five months, it gobbled up some 400 million bushels of grain, despite the short corn crop which put pressure under all grain prices. In one two-week period, the Government bought more grain than had been exported...
...empiricism of the past may be a sufficient guide for the masters of a police state," he said, "but an open society with our ideals requires other instruments and a wider understanding of modern man." Having listened to Dr. Conant and his worrisome conscience, the scientists turned with relief to discussion of objective activities (devoid of "value judgments"), an atmosphere in which they are at home and comfortable...