Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look like being permanently the paupers of the English-speaking world," the bishop declared. "We need to restrict our population . . . We must preserve the better stocks in the population, and hinder the increase of the worse . . . We need to preserve the good-living, honest, hard-working classes in our people, whether they be rich or poor ... A time is quickly coming when sterilization of the unfit will have to be essential in our social organization...
...paying for the heavy burdens of wars, depressions, and welfare services, our taxes have been raised so high that they are constituting in themselves an influence which leads away from freedom and towards socialism. They restrict the ability of the citizen to spend as he pleases. Instead they channel a considerable part of his earnings into general welfare which he may or may not desire. Worse than this in the long run is the deadening hand of taxes on new enterprises and undertakings and the comparative strength they also give to old established businesses. Freedom to start something now with...
...Government has made a grave mistake in prosecuting and imprisoning the eleven bosses of the Communist Party of this great nation. The Smith Act of 1940 was never meant to be so misused as to restrict and virtually outlaw the belief and teachings of any free-thinking American political group. This action by bigoted Americans may well establish a malignant precedent of outlawing (or of purging) all individuals or groups of individuals who show disfavor with or oppose the political leaders of this land...
Called into an emergency midnight session, Congress by morning passed a law giving the President extraordinary powers to arrest, to impose censorship, and to restrict the right of assembly. Gonzalez, who had been up all night, signed the law at 7:30 a.m. The first arrested was former Communist Deputy Humberto Abarca...
Bishop Fjellbu (pronounced fyellboo) warned against any "attempt to pass judgment on capitalism and communism as economic systems"; the church, he said, should condemn "only a totalitarianism which makes claims on the whole man and seeks to restrict his religious freedom." Bishop Dibelius, who referred to Western Berlin as "a fortress amid the Red Sea," wanted strong language...