Word: tightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing is more sacred to many Congressmen than the depletion allowance. Attempts by various administrations to change it have been quickly beaten down. Undaunted by this. Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson last week took up the attack again. He told Congress that something has to be done to tighten up on the depletion allowance; the loopholes in the law are so many that the Treasury stands to lose hundreds of millions in revenue each year...
...conflict with and duplicate Federal legislation which has pre-empted the field. The other ABA recommendations--to give the Secretary of State broad power to withhold passports from "alleged subversives," to strengthen the already too stringent Smith Act, to extend the already too wide security program, to tighten immigration laws requiring the deportation of Communists (probably unconstitutional, and at least unjust, as they stand)--similarly represent dangerous incursions upon individual political liberty...
...Smaller and colder than the Eagles' McHugh Forum, it will reduce the advantage of B.C.'s speedsters, Ron Walsh, Owen Hughes and Tommy Martin. Instead of falling prey to Martin's long sleeper-play passes up the middle to a wing at the offensive blue line, the varsity can tighten things up by playing "position...
Like the late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuther in the days of the 1949 airlift, Socialist Willy Brandt had come to tighten that mutual reliance between Americans and Berliners. His method, beyond talks with President Eisenhower and other Washington brass: a Meet the Press TV appearance, a banquet hosted by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, luncheons with New York businessmen, press conference and dinner in Los Angeles (whence he flies on around the world). In the growing tradition of nondiplomat diplomacy, Mayor Brandt came not at the invitation of the U.S. Government but to be feature speaker this week...
...cold and the rain once more are From Here to Eternity civilian misfits who used to gravitate to the U.S. Army. Moving into an era of sophisticated weapons and scissored-down manpower allowances, the 900,000-man Army last summer decided to tighten requirements and improve the G.I.s. Enlistment and draft laws were toughened; minimum requirement in the Army General Qualification Test was boosted from a ten-point score out of 100 to 31. The tightening-up process extended to troops in service; e.g., 71,000 "eightballs" fingered by their C.O.s were honorably discharged last year, and technicians were ordered...