Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strength of U.N. depends, basically, on the U.S. As long as the U.S. supports U.N. and as long as U.S. policies conform to principles of democracy, positive and independent actions in the world will strengthen, not weaken, the world organization of which the U.S. is the most important part...
...with the newer rates CABoss Landis intends to keep a closer watch on airline financing. Many lines have stubbornly chosen to go into debt to buy new equipment rather than issue stock and thus weaken the holdings of those now in control. From now on, CAB intends to seek more authority over line financing...
...road to industrial peace lies not in weakening bus in strengthening unions. Union "responsibility" is a worthy goal if the term means eliminating the racketeering and undemocratic practices that are found in some unions; but a drive for "responsibility" is too often used to cloak a drive to weaken or climinate all unions. The legislation now being considered by Congress will not remove the causes of labor disputes--a fact that will become all too evident if the laws being contemplated are enacted. Collective bargaining stands as the only way of settling labor disputes--bargaining between equals...
...National Labor Relations Act (Wagner act). It would guarantee employers the right to state their position in a labor dispute. It would protect craft unions and minorities from the past tendencies of NLRB, which often ruled in favor of big industrial unions. Thus the bill would "strengthen, not weaken, the rights of employees," said Ball. But it would not touch labor's right to organize, the cherished and long-fought-for right which the Wagner act insured...
...step. The most obvious move in that direction is material aid in the Polish reconstruction and in the stabilization of the Polish atmosphere to one more healthy for democracy. To saddle the present government with criticism of an election which they were forced to hold prematurely will merely weaken those forces which seem to be making considerable progress toward the conditions under which democracy can thrive...