Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As sponsor of the national rent-control law, he had favored a "voluntary" 15% provision for the rest of the country. As a tenant of the Westchester Apartments, he and several other Senators were fighting a 17½% rent hike proposed by their landlord. The country's tenants would...
Apartment landlords seemed to have misunderstood the "voluntary" character of the 15% rent hike authorized by the law. Tenants were put under pressure to sign leases with the 15% boost. After getting a letter from his landlord suggesting a 15% increase, an Atlanta Constitution editorial writer wrote: "Oh, it'...
This week, Harry Truman signed the Housing and Rent Act of 1947. Said he: "It is clear that, insofar as the Congress is concerned, it is this bill or no rent control at all." The bill; which continues rent controls to Feb. 29, 1948, will permit "voluntary" 15% rent increases...
But the opponents of U.M.T. had a potent spokesman, too. With typical disregard of what appeared to be popular approval, Ohio's Senator Bob Taft last week declared he would fight "conscription . . . to the bitter end." U.M.T., said Taft, was wasteful and obsolete. "Conscription was no insurance of victory...
But the Russian people are docile. They do not complain about their rulers, far less threaten them. There is no sign of any major purges. I heard a great deal of genuine, voluntary admiration for Stalin, some for Molotov and Zhdanov. But I never heard any Russian volunteer a single...