Word: tacit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government and the people had made a tacit covenant that no one should profiteer from...
...code undoubtedly left much to be desired. It went on the tacit assumption that any information given to the U.S. public was thereby given to the enemy. It did not make even a theoretical concession to the principle that news should be kept from getting out of the country (by peripheral censorship) so that the public at home can be allowed to have significant information. By making censorable all news of the progress of production it at least theoretically denied the public any chance to know and criticize if the President's arms program (60,000 planes...
Three-Ring Time had no sooner started than NBC, according to Mr. Weber, exerted its options on ten of the 14 stations for the half-hour when the program was being carried; then, opportunely relaxing a tacit rule against beer and ale advertising, announced that it would carry Three-Ring Time. In December six of the ten stations on which the program had started for Mutual were among those carrying it for NBC Blue...
Kalinin, 100 miles northwest of Moscow, was mentioned for the first time in a Russian communique. It said fighting was especially fierce in that and in the Vyazma and Bryansk sectors, a tacit admission that Moscow was now half encircled, with the Germans battering their way along four main approaches...
...Currency Committee) a confidential study which blistered Leon's britches: "Table-thumping and bellowing tactics. . . . Cannot resist the use of invective . . . capricious actions . . . anti-business views." Gist of the study: a price bill is necessary but it should: 1) clearly define and limit its powers; 2) counteract "the tacit encouragement of the Administration in wage increases"; 3) give power not to Henderson but to someone who "merits the confidence of business...