Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major groups refused even to recognize that new factors had been injected into the political equation. At the present time both parties seem aware of the issues that are raised by the Wallace adherents; but they have formulated a different solution by which they are willing to stand or fall...
...Resolved, That the social and economic advantages to be gained from nationalization of basic industries would be overwhelming" is the subject. Defending the Council in the negative will be William P. D. Bailey '46 and Edwin J. Jacob '47, veteran debaters who also took the stand for the Council in the debate against Cambridge last March...
...union hall, wearing a miner's cap, he shouts for an eight-day wage, a two-day week; at a discreet banquet for bankers, he whispers for a two-day wage, an eight-day week. Elsewhere, discussing the problems of inflation and deflation, he takes his stand fearlessly, without compromise, "For Flation." He also picks up an honorary Ph.D. from the Edgar L. Eubanks College of Animal Husbandry and Modern Fertilizing Methods...
...November: extended export controls, extended control over rail facilities, authority to promote increased farm production. These three measures, he said, "are needed now." But "they are of minor importance compared with . . . the key measures which are essential to an effective anti-inflation program." In particular, the President wanted stand-by authority for compulsory allocations, rationing and wage-price controls...
...pains in this vital work, Whitehead was christened a "mystic" by many; but in the light of today his early searching and compelling conclusions stand as heartening indications of the latent capacity of mankind to understand itself...