Word: unless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farmer-Politician Kline chucked a juicy tomato right back at Brannan. "The implication in your letter . . . that a group of free American citizens cannot objectively discuss both sides of questions of policy unless the discussion is guided by some federal appointee can hardly be made seriously. Our members are remarkably well-informed on public-policy matters and . . . particularly well-informed with respect to your own proposal. It has been thoroughly discussed...
...Judge Ryan felt differently about it. He gave the Government until this week to produce sworn affidavits from the 23 FBI agents involved in the case and offered the defense a chance to cross-examine any or all of them if they desired. Unless the U.S. could prove that its indictment was built on other, untainted evidence, the spy trial would be crossed off the calendar...
Some student and graduate clubmen howled in protest. The sophomores were infringing upon the clubs' "basic right of selectivity." But there were plenty of other clubmen who disagreed: 217 said they would themselves resign unless the sophomores had their way. By week's end, the sophomores seemed to be winning the battle that Woodrow Wilson lost. Said Chairman William Wallace of the Undergraduate Interclub Committee: "The clubs will try their best to fit their election machinery to the sophomore...
...much on the first few shows: "I've got to force myself to let a few minutes go by without saying anything, but a silence always makes me uneasy." As for radio, Ace says: "I don't think we'll ever go back to it-unless some silly sponsor wants to take a chance...
Said he: "Our future prosperity [depends upon] an intensification of technological progress . . . increasing productivity [and] a constantly broadening distribution of purchasing power by an ever-improving ratio of prices to wages [i.e., higher wages or lower prices]. Unless the buying power of the masses, whose wants create markets, is progressively expanding, business will have to be content with a virtually static situation...