Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the head of a great country thinks that world peace is threatened by the very existence of another social system, he ought to try to do something about it. Stalin tries. He inspires and directs Communist parties in all non-Communist countries to weaken their social systems and, if possible, to destroy them. In a nutshell, the evidence that the Communists intend to dominate the world boils down to this: 1) the Communists say they do; and 2) they act as if they mean...
...arriving in Atlanta as a paying passenger on a train, announced that hoboes had stopped riding the rods. He explained: "There are plenty of jobs now, and all of us are needed. If kids see us riding the freights, they might try to imitate us and this would further weaken the nation's manpower...
Professor Cox, who dealt sharply with the legal aspects of the proposed bills, declared by the both the labor act recently passed by the House of Representatives and the one currently before the Senate would weaken unions and thus hamper collective bargaining, "on which the major load of industrial peace must rest...
Many of the provisions of the anti-labor laws, now being considered by congress, are not-designed to correct some acknowledged faults of unions, but to weaken the entire union movement. Labor unions are a necessary part of our capitalist system. Only through effective organization can the workers' bargaining power be equalized with that of management. If we are to achieve economic stability this organization must be preserved...
Alone among the Dominion's leading newspapers, the Montreal Star supported Good Neighbor Vandenberg: "Many of our interests run with those of the union. We weaken our position by our lack of membership." The Government long ago decided that it would not occupy the 22nd chair until the people of Canada prodded it, and last week there was little prodding. The Ottawa Journal epitomized the Dominion's attitude: "Wouldn't it be better for us to stand aloof-working with nobody in particular, but the friends...