Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boom-&-bust should be controlled by lowering tax rates, easing credit controls, starting public works (under private contract) whenever unemployment reaches 6% of the total labor force; when unemployment drops back to 4%, the process should be reversed. Another Stassen weapon: "Officially encouraged voluntary boycotts" against excessively high prices.
Each week, voluntary campus listeners rate the comics as "Highly Acceptable," "Acceptable," "Barely Acceptable," or "Offensive." In last week's first tabulation, nobody was labeled offensive, 14 of the 16 shows squeaked by, and only one-Jimmy Durante-was "Highly Acceptable." Hope was alone in the "Barely Acceptable" class...
An informal group of Student Council members, reacting swiftly to the Council's postponement Wednesday of a University-wide food poll, has hammered out a revised poll for voluntary wheat savings, guaranteeing that all money saved under the program will be "applied to an improvement in the quality of the...
In an adamant, eleventh-hour decision, the Student Council last night voted overwhelmingly to cancel distribution of a poll that would have given University students the opportunity to accept or reject a voluntary food rationing program at Harvard. The poll was to be taken today.
Lally was instructed by the Council to re-draft the poll with the aid of other members. Weld said that it will be presented to the student body 'as soon as possible," and stated that Durant has assured the Council that if the voluntary savings program is approved. It will...