Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The press was quick to detect the new menace in such a rule. Said the New York Times: "In effect OPACS has been attempting to control prices by asking for voluntary reductions in profits." Said the Wall Street Journal: "Profits ... are not the business of Mr. Henderson." Leon remained philosophical...
This week it looked as if preferred shareholders (not to mention SEC) might not O.K. this plan. Reason: in either "voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution" the preferred is entitled to $100 par value plus accrued dividends. That gives C. & S. preferred a theoretical value of $119.50, almost twice the...
If boys are drafted, why not girls? Mrs. Roosevelt sees no good reason why not. Since the beginning of the depression she has often discussed with the President a cherished plan: drafting U.S. girls for a year of compulsory service. Last week, like other citizens of the District of Columbia...
Voluntary censorship means that the press must not print anything which the Navy does not want it to print-that was the gist of the interpretation last week by onetime Publisher Frank Knox, now Secretary of the Navy, of his unilateral understanding that the press will censor itself. Equally extreme...
When true military secrets need protection, the only effective censorship is censorship at source, for so-called voluntary censorship, which is subject to many a dangerous abuse, is no solution. Said one newsman to Secretary Knox privately last week: "A Japanese friend of mine told me that a British warship...