Word: restrictively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the desk of Harry S. Truman last week emerged an 1,800-word state paper exclusively devoted to garlic. U.S. garlic growers, a small but vociferously selfish band, had persuaded the Tariff Commission to restrict garlic imports so severely that Italy, one of the chief foreign suppliers, stood to lose more than half her U.S. sales, which in 1951 totaled about $420,000* Pointing out that Italy had done a good job of combating Communism, the President bravely overruled his commission. The decision to abolish the garlic quota, declared one State Department official, would breathe new life into...
...Archbishop of Canterbury was not so sure. "There is no limit to the powers of Parliament," he said. "But I personally hope that Parliament would not be so ill-advised as to try to remove the Dean or restrict his freedom of utterance . . . It is a tragedy that the abusers of freedom thereby jeopardize other men's freedom, but it is wisdom to bear with folly and unreason and delusions . . . as a price worth paying to preserve this freedom...
...drive for adjournment hit hidden shoals, however, when the $10 billion supplemental appropriations bill came out of a House-Senate conference still carrying a House rider which would cut atomic-energy funds in half and seriously restrict construction of new atomic installations. Rising to the attack, Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, in a surprising burst of stirring and statesmanlike oratory, warned that the rider would blunt the U.S. atomic-energy program at a critical stage. Passionately, he demanded that the bill be sent back to conference for another try at removal of the rider...
...change in government operations, but Eden, still the heir apparent to Churchill, would get some needed background in domestic affairs. No sooner had this change been made than a hitch developed. The Foreign Secretary came down with jaundice, and the Foreign Office announced he would have to restrict his activities "for a number of weeks...
...Unwisely, the U.S. agreed. One government might send a "correction" to another and it would be required to pass along the correction to its press, though the newspapers could decide for themselves whether to print it. But the clause was the beginning of a chain reaction of proposals to restrict the press...