Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pearl Harbor may have shaken U.S. isolationism politically, but it was news last week when a professor challenged its tacit acceptance in U.S. history teaching. At Columbia University's Barnard College (for women) Professor Eugene Hugh Byrne announced a course in "de-isolationized" U.S. history: "World history from the American standpoint...
Henry Morgenthau and his tax experts marched up Capitol Hill and marched right down again. They came up to propose a new tax program; for all political purposes they were almost kicked downhill. The tacit assumption of recent years that the Administration knows best about taxes† was for once emphatically rejected. The Senate Finance Committee let the Treasury understand that it knew what it wanted...
...white vigilantes patrol the streets at night with clubs and revolvers. Last week Canadian and U.S. troops were ordered out on parade one day before the annual celebration of Emancipation Day, commemorating the freeing of Jamaican slaves in 1838. The marching troops were a tacit warning that Jamaican police are backed by armed forces...
...real reason, observers suspected, was that Thurman Arnold acts with the President's tacit approval. When labor gets uppity, the President slips the leash, and Arnold cuts loose with many a bark & bay. When labor is getting plenty of lumps everywhere else, Mr. Roosevelt hauls Arnold back to the doghouse for a spell...
...have heard about the pact. It is necessary only to look at the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange (lowest in seven years) to see that business as a whole is not profiteering. But there are always exceptions. Certainly no party to any non-profiteering covenant, written or tacit, was Jack & Heintz, Inc., of Bedford, Ohio, manufacturers of airplane starters...