Word: stopgaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; around it cluster intellectuals like Adolf Berle and Reinhold Niebuhr. The Liberal Party fights Tammany, but on national and statewide issues usually lines up with the Democrats. When it seemed clear that Cashmore would be nominated, the Liberals balked. They nominated a stopgap candidate, Columbia University's Dr. George S. Counts. Party leaders admitted that they might shift to another candidate before election. What made the Liberals maddest was the calm Democratic prediction that the Liberals would come around to Cashmore-as well they might...
...Development program. Some seven such loans, totalling $58,300,000, are now held up. Last week, seeking ways to tide itself over the trade crisis, Rio was considering borrowing up to $200 million from the U.S. Government against Brazil's gold reserve. At best this would be a stopgap. It would not help Brazil develop its own rich resources...
...EURJ All the regular appropriation bills. Stopgap spending authority, under which the Government has been operating since June 30, will expire next week...
...wolf, Manly Fleischmann, boss of the National Production Authority, last week trotted out his Controlled Materials Plan. Its howl seemed to be worse than its bite. Starting July 1, CMP will tightly control all steel, copper and aluminum in defense production, thus put an end to the tangle of stopgap priorities NPA has used up to now. But civilian producers will be untouched by CMP under the present plan. They will be left to scramble for the metals that are left over, but whether the metals will be the bulk-or only a small part-of the supply is still...
Harris charged that political pressure has made the Federal Reserve System unworkable as a credit stopgap, and suggested instead that a compulsory savings program be added to the income...