Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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TIME, July 31: "Said Dwight D. Eisenhower, who thought the [atom] bomb might be considered for matériel targets in Korea, but not against human beings: 'We're trying to stand before the world as decent, just, fair people, not as judges to exterminate those who oppose...
...with war maps and pictures of warriors on the cover. I would not mind receiving this new publication if I could continue to receive my regular copy of TIME as well. But if this new publication is intended as a permanent substitute for the old TIME, it seems only fair that subscribers should have been informed...
Treasury Secretary John Snyder, one of the more conservative members of Harry Truman's Fair Deal Cabinet, explained why it had to be: the under-$5,000 group accounts for 91% of all taxpayers in the U.S. and 69% of all taxable personal income before exemptions. "A relatively small increase in the rate in the lowest brackets," said Secretary Snyder, "contributes more revenue than a larger increase at the higher levels...
...cannot do the same. He is entitled to expect a shake-out in nonessentials-and everyone knows they are there-before resort is had to tax increases." The Letter said that big cuts could be made in farm price supports, federal mortgages on housing, public works, EGA spending, and Fair Deal programs for health, education, etc. Total savings: $5 billion...
South-Southeast. Half-Indian, half-Irish Author Menen's little parable is fair sport as far as it goes, but it is a comedown from his witty and pointed satirical novel about the British in India, The Prevalence of Witches (1948). The Backward Bride seems meant to be profound in a Shavian way when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell...