Word: spurs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though the Treasury has long opposed such cuts, it is beginning to heed the rising chorus from businessmen that a tax slash would actually benefit the budget by reducing the need for foreign aid. Last week the Treasury was actively considering some tax concessions to spur foreign investment...
Mansfield said "I think he--Khrushchev--cannot be trusted not to do something on the spur of the moment" that would start a shooting...
...Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) voiced fear Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev might "do something on the spur of the moment" that would ignite a conflict...
...activity and criticism of the Senate Democrats can be useful nevertheless if it provides a spur and goad to the executive branch. Their interest in foreign policy may provide the basis for a collaboration similar to the powerful combination of executive and legislature which developed American policy towards Europe under the previous administration. If the young Democrats can pressure the administration into a new, dynamic outlook, the benefits will be vast...
Schlesinger would not quite concur in this estimate, and in fact goes to considerable lengths to outline the ideological antecedents of much New Deal legislation. Nevertheless, the argumentation so carefully reported in the volume's chapters on agricultural, industrial, financial, conservation, labor and relief policies seems very much spur-of-the-moment philosophy. Schlesinger does manage to create one plausible clash of ideologies in explaining the New Deal: "The Tennessee Valley Authority ... became another battlefield in the struggle which divided the early New Deal--the struggle between the social planners, who thought in terms of an organic economy...