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...people "through an underworld of imaginary devils," charging that the Republicans wanted to wreck development of natural resources, irrigation and power projects. Nonsense, said Eisenhower. Many of these projects had been started by the Republican 80th Congress, which Truman calls the "worst." The Republicans, said Ike, want to safeguard a measure of local control over the projects instead of surrendering all to "whole-hog Federal Government...
...implied lack of supervision this is completely misleading. Two federal regulatory agencies maintain close supervision over packaged medicines. The most important legal safeguard of the family medicine chest is the Food and Drug Administration, which administers the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act. This Act prohibits the sale in interstate commerce of products that are adulterated or dangerous to health. The law also establishes minimum standards of strength, quality and purity for many drugs. It establishes specifications for the labeling of drugs, so as to avoid misbranding. The other regulatory body is the Federal Trade Commission, which maintains supervision over...
...hands of ordinary human beings and put together again, something to serve, not as man's history-ordained master, but as his servant and instrument. When you have men in their millions who have the sense of this ingrained in them, you have that which will safeguard them-and will safeguard you-from the ultimate cataclysm and the final bestiality...
...When James Byrnes was U.S. Secretary of State (1945-47), one of the big international issues was the U.S. demand for a secret ballot in Eastern European countries occupied by the Red army. Byrnes had to carry the ball for a democratic safeguard against voter coercion which his own state had not adopted...
...keelboat Mandan are a brawling Creole crew captained by roly-poly Frenchie (Steven Geray); a couple of Kentucky mountain men, high-spirited Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas) and hot-tempered Boone Caudill (Dewey Martin); and a hostage Blackfoot princess named Teal Eye (Elizabeth Threatt), who has been taken along to safeguard the expedition against Indian attacks...