Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regarded as a warning to our associates in the trials that no commitment of the President or of the military authorities . . . has,finality [without] the approval of this court." On the other hand, he added, "our allies are more likely to understand and to forgive any assertion of excess jurisdiction . . . than our enemies would be to understand or condone any excess of scruple...
Everyone knows that business profits are high. Are they too high? To this short, explosive question, a Senate subcommittee, weighing the pros & cons of an excess profits tax, last week got some long-winded and contradictory answers...
...them of hoarding earnings to expand and build up monopolistic enterprises. He castigated steel companies for putting away earnings as reserves against a depression, saying: "This is an extremely dangerous attitude for American industry to take." Ruttenberg's cureall: an all-out attack on "monopoly" by slapping on excess profits and undistributed profits taxes...
...part of Thersites, Albert Marre is a sufficiently detestable cynic. Last night, however, much of the pertinence of his comments was lost either through the excess of music, the crowding of his lines by other players, or the distraction of action elsewhere on the stage. If he is the spokesman for the production, and he must be, for he opens and closes the play, he should not be obscured...
...mandate. Only in 1946, they said, had the issue been clearly drawn against the New Deal, and in 1946 the Republicans had won. Some talked of reviving their congressional coalition with conservative Southern Democrats-a set of obstructionists whom Harry Truman had just thrown overboard as so much excess ballast. Speaker Joe Martin hustled down to Mobile, told the Alabama Chamber of Commerce: "It was the South which helped to hold the line for American enterprise through the trying years of the prewar experiment in Washington...