Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the court were given the most rigid security proctection from the time they left the courtroom tonight...
Therein lies the quandary of the Democratic left. Forced to dissipate its energies in rigid self-examination, it is fearful lest one of its most useful members prove treacherous beyond control. And while left-wingers dispute whether the horse in the market place is real or imaginary, the battle beyond the gates goes badly. Reuniting of the splintered Democratic left must await the day when the question of Communists is solved by Soviet-U. S. rapprochement, or the more dismal reality of a break...
Labor & Art. "And do you know what's behind this lag in experiment over here? Your radio union, the American Federation of Radio Artists. To put together a fine radio program takes time, but the union's rigid wages-&-hours regulations make it impossible-or at least financially prohibitive-to spend enough time rehearsing. . . . While union regulations provide for strikes in case wages fall too low, they make no mention of any action in case the station's artistic standards sink...
...cruel minds of the German people know only too well that if they showed their true feelings of everlasting hatred, vengeance, and arrogance, we would maintain a rigid, good-sized, well-disciplined occupational force. So their cunning minds lead them to bow over backwards, knowing that this attitude will soon reassure us that these poor misled people have learned their lesson. So we will go home and live happily ever after-until another Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, or Hitler climbs onto a balcony and starts screaming...
...Canada has a better form of government than the United States, and therefore a better ability to advance real democracy. The American Constitution is too rigid, and stays rigid because they have made it a sacred document. At the present moment a man who does not wish to be President, and whom the majority of Americans do not wish to be President, must serve his term as a prisoner of the Constitution for two more years. The Chief Executive in the United States has too much responsibility. . . . Mackenzie King is still with us after 20 years. . . . No American President could...