Word: restrictionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never in Hollywood history had there been such a sample of matrimony-by-pressagent. Although Actress Hayworth at first insisted that she wanted none of the "pomp and frumptiousness" of her wedding to Aly Khan, she meekly surrendered to the greater wisdom of Press-agent Al Freeman of the Sands...
On Monday, Elliott Perkins '23, master of Lowell House, revealed that the housemasters had informally agreed on the Saturday night restriction last December, but "through an oversight" had not made it public.
Cut the Crop? Next week, for the first time since 1942, U.S. wheat farmers will vote on whether they want marketing quotas imposed on next year's crop. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is basically against controls, but the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act forced him to employ the...
Reform at a Price. In the first few decades of U.S. history, Cabinet officers hired their staffs without restriction, took credit or blame for the results. With the rise of political parties and patronage officials began to distribute jobs with an eye more to party spoils than to the nation...
No Choice. No such quota controls have been set on wheat since Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard fixed them for the 1943 crop. Benson had no choice. The 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, still in effect, says that the wheat-marketing restriction machinery must be thrown into gear when the wheat...