Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appropriations Committee would cut into the muscle of U.S. military power. The cold-war balance, he argued, has tipped in favor of the West. The U.S. is involved in delicate disarmament talks with Russia, and it would be far better to negotiate from strength than weakness. "I've dealt with this thing for 40 years," said Ike. "I've gone over the military budget with a fine toothcomb, and I know what I'm talking about...
...George Humphrey, a Taftman before 1952, had a hard time swallowing what the President came to call Modern Republicanism. He could see the point of defense costs as long as they dealt with essential hardware, but he had little sympathy with foreign economic aid, and even less for the "welfare state" programs that wedged their way into the 1958 budget. His doubts broke through, almost by accident, when he made his famed remark last January that continued big budgets would bring on a hair-curling depression. Humphrey's prediction strongly influenced his business friends and encouraged a boom...
...Supreme Court last week dealt with a familiar constitutional issue: the Fifth Amendment. Before the court was the case of New York City Attorney Max Halperin, convicted in 1955 of tax-fixing conspiracy* and attempting to corrupt witnesses before a grand jury. Before his indictment Halperin had declined, under the Fifth, to testify against himself before a grand jury. Because the trial judge permitted this use of the Fifth to be cited against him at his trial, the Supreme Court, on a relatively clear point of law, ordered a new trial...
...conform to the thesis, it is the facts and not the thesis that are to blame-and woe to those who point out the facts"). When caught, Soviet prostitutes are sometimes sent to prison camps, but no laws or regulations exist under which the embarrassing problem can be rationally dealt with. Said Trud last February: "Are these women not breaking a basic law of Socialism, 'He who does not work does not eat,' and is it not time that steps were taken to punish these people...
...three separate occasions. It was a crushing blow to hear from him that he was now handing over this appointment to the Americans . . . Not for one moment did he realise what this meant to me. He offered no sympathy, no regrets at having had to change his mind, and dealt with the matter as if it were one of minor importance." Perhaps in a larger context than Brookie could grasp...