Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Everyone recognizes that the trucks perform a vital role in our economy," said A.A.A. President Ralph Thomas, "but the time has come for a proper and adequate determination of the share of highway building costs that should be borne by the principal beneficiaries . . . The passenger car owner is called upon...
The shocking proposition put forward by you that the price for the reforms brought about by the merit system "is too high" cannot be supported by the facts. The statement that "no civil service ever cooperates efficiently with a Government dedicated to cutting expenses" not only is a gratuitous smear...
Under sharp prodding by the Alabama Tuberculosis Association, with eloquent backing from the press, tax-conscious Governor Gordon Persons and the legislature saw that Alabama's penny-wise policy was pound-foolish. The best they could do was to promise to try to find $500,000-somewhere. But every...
"The principle of unity cannot work without sacrifice. No man can do precisely what he wants. The youth of America did not do what they wanted . . . They went because, at a dark hour, you invoked the sacred principle of free world unity to save your country from overwhelming disaster. Of...
At the White House, Dwight Eisenhower, as he had done last February, again turned down a plea for clemency. Said he: "This case has aroused grave concern both here and abroad in the minds of serious people, aside from the considerations of the law. I can only say that, by...