Word: upon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This may be looked back upon by future historians as the turning point-for good-of race relations in this country. If the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution can be made good in Little Rock, then it can be made good in Arkansas. If it can be made good in Arkansas, then eventually it can be made good throughout the South...
...Central High. It was one of the nation's most painful moments, and the first use of U.S. troops in a Southern racial crisis since Reconstruction days. Explained the President in a radio-TV speech to the nation: "The very basis of our individual rights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the President and the executive branch of Government will support and insure the carrying out of the decisions of the federal courts, even, when necessary, with all the means at the President's command. Unless the President did so, anarchy would result...
...fight against inflation, said the President, governments must curb their own demands upon the economy - "a difficult task in this day of heavy defense outlays" - and follow credit policies that promote stability. But government measures alone cannot win the fight unless nations avoid "the costly error of overpaying ourselves for the work we do." Payments for "productive efforts of all sorts," i.e., profits as well as wages, should rise in step with productivity, not outrun it. Here Ike echoed a theme he had voiced in his State of the Union address last January: labor and business, as well as government...
Unmistakably agreeing with Anderson and Martin, the American Bankers Association, meeting in Atlantic City, voted a resolution calling upon the Government to keep up its fight against, inflation. In a speech to the bankers, U.S. Steel Corp.'s Board Chairman Roger M. Blough urged a two-point anti-inflation program to supplement Government policies: 1) efforts by management and labor to increase productivity, and 2) restraint by both to keep wage rises from outpacing productivity. In effect, Blough was restating Dwight Eisenhower's theme: in a free economy, the Government cannot defeat inflation without help from business...
...director of the Aquinas Foundation, a Roman Catholic student organization, but canceled his privileges to use university facilities. The university's decision, insisted Goheen, "was not an issue of academic freedom." Said he: "Under claims of advancing the pursuit of truth, [Father Halton] has resorted to irresponsible attacks upon the intellectual integrity of faculty members. For tactics of this sort, no university devoted to freedom of rational inquiry and debate need make a home...