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...public interest for publishers and librarians to make available the widest diversity of views and expressions, including those which are unorthodox or unpopular with the majority...
...more lurid struggle was going on. John Randolph, pain-ridden, drink-ridden, drug-ridden, and yet the clearest head in Congress, was fighting for local rights against the anti-conservative growth of central power. John C. Calhoun, quenching his own burning ambition, was busy on his unpopular formulation of minority rights against "the tyranny of majorities." Nathaniel Hawthorne was throwing his almost obsessive consciousness of sin into the bland and smiling face of the growing optimism...
...halt the unpopular farm collectivization program at its present level (about 10% of East German farmland...
...bumper wheat crop, with the carryover, would give the U.S. the greatest supply of wheat in its history, and almost certainly force the Agriculture Department to cut back wheat planting next year-an unpopular move with farmers. But it seems unlikely that 1954 production could be shaved by more than 15%. The House Agriculture Committee last week approved a bill barring the Agriculture Department from cutting minimum acreage below 66 million acres (v. 55 million under present law), although acreage allotments have been under 66 million in five of "the six years in which they have been imposed since...
...concentrate on careful reading of the two tough propositions he wanted to make clear. The propositions: 1) because the Communist danger is still very real, the Administration has decided on a policy of no tax cuts until next January (TIME, May 25) and must ask Congress to extend the unpopular excess profits tax when it expires next June 30; 2) because the danger is without visible end, the U.S. must trim back to a defense force which it can support economically, must cut some $5.2 billion out of the Truman defense budget-mostly from the Air Force...