Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said he: "At the end of the last war, a great President of the United States gave his life ... to further ... the splendid vision of ... an ordered world, governed by law. ... I am unalterably convinced: First, that the abolition of offensive armaments . . . can only be undertaken through some rigid form of international . . . control . . . and, second, that no peace . . . would be valid or lasting unless it established . . . the natural rights of all peoples to equal economic enjoyment...
...social bellyache, the labor situation. Labor leaders did not like the whiffs they got from the brew. To A.F. of L. President William Green, the legislation smelt like "a violation of the Constitution." C.I.O. President Philip Murray called it an effort to clamp upon "the total American economy a rigid status of enforced labor." The May, Connally and Vinson bills, said labor, jeopardized the right to picket, established compulsory arbitration, deprived labor of its right to strike...
...because democracy was one of Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles, and the Army, more than Chungking, mouths the words of China's George Washington. They love the U.S. because they believe that the U.S. will send them big guns. However, they tend to sympathize with the rigid social codes of Totalitaria, specifically with those of militarily successful Germany...
...after the President's speech, in a slick little four-way play, a rigid export control was slapped down on Philippine trade. The President signed an act curbing Japanese access to Philippine raw materials. By prearrangement President Manuel Quezon immediately signed a proclamation implementing the new license system. Then High Commissioner Francis Bowes Sayre, almost in the same breath, announced that the act was in effect at once under his supervision...
...fundamentals, he even threatened to crack down on the purchasing agents themselves if they got "panicky about inventories and corralling supplies." To the theorv that the OPACS system of handling price situations piecemeal is unpractical he replied: "If I believed that this were so I should be for a rigid ceiling on all prices . . . and I should have been for it early." But his denial that wages or farm prices were as yet moving out of line left delegates unconvinced...