Word: token
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prodding & Patience. At week's start, the Republicans suffered a serious tactical defeat when they tried, under a gag rule, to ram a token anti-inflation bill through the House. But after House Democrats, in an unusual show of solidarity, had smashed the bill (TIME, Dec. 22), Ohio's Bob Taft did a statesmanlike job of picking up the pieces in the Senate...
...something for China. Said one House conferee: "They just sat and looked and waited, and if we hadn't agreed to the China money, we wouldn't have had any Christmas." The weary wrangling ended in the usual compromise: $522 million for France, Italy and Austria, a token $18 million for China, $340 million for the Army. Both Houses approved...
...student finds himself in the difficult situation of making charitable contributions with money which he has not earned. If "give in proportion to income" were his rule, he would not give at all, and yet most student's feel that a donation of some sort, if only of token dimensions, should be made to the charities of the community in which their school is located...
...three charities considered, the Council decided to appropriate an as yet undetermined amount to the United Negro College Fund. While voting a token donation to Spanish Refugee Aid--since it is not a student organization--the Council pulled its purse strings shut entirely on a student exchange scholarship fund, feeling it was doing enough international exchange work through its activities...
...that cautious attitude was a measure of past apathy, the election returns themselves were an impressive token of the awakening. An unusually heavy vote in elections to municipal councils throughout England and Wales showed that the Conservatives had made a net gain of 621 council seats. Labor suffered a net loss of 652 seats. Labor's loss in industrial areas was particularly notable. Grim and grimy Birmingham, which the Chamberlain family had accustomed to Tory rule, put 65 Tories in its council of 136. Manchester, Reading and Rugby went Conservative. It was the first major political shift in Britain...