Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Controls are not the answer to basic economic problems. The answer lies in Government and business learning to understand one another. "Prices and wages and profits . . . should be left to the actions of managers and workers within our business system itself...
...Scriptures, then more worldly books. When the depression was at its height they read Maurice Colbourne's Unemployment or War, expounding the theory of Social Credit for the redistribution of wealth, as originated by England's Major Clifford Douglas. Aberhart and Manning decided it was the answer to Alberta's problems...
Samuel Gompers in 1900 was forging another weapon to counteract the power of Big Business. His American Federation of Labor was growing. At the turn of the century, men were beginning to ask Gompers what his goal was. Where would he stop? Gompers had a prophetic answer which he was soon to deliver in a speech at Portland, Ore.: "We want more, we demand more, and when we get that more, we shall insist upon again more and more and even more, until we get the full fruition of our labor...
There was a long pause and then a calm, matter-of-fact answer: "All right...
Ephemeral Sadness. This mood has been caught by viewers. Once when Kukla blew his nose on the curtain, 250 handkerchiefs arrived from fans within two days. Unable to answer more than a small fraction of the 8,000-odd letters that pour in each week, Tillstrom mails out a chatty newspaper, the Kuklapolitan Courier, some five times a year (current circulation...