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Agriculture does not obey traditional laws of supply and demand. Drouth can suddenly shut the valve in the supply pipe; military crises and fluctuating foreign markets unsettle the demand. Because framers may be caught in a severe depression while the rest of the economy prospers, Democrats and Republicans alike have regarded farm price supports as essential disaster insurance...
...other demand that every citizen shall, in every relevant situation, "cooperate in government" cannot, in the same way, be set aside. In some sense, that duty is laid upon every one of us. But in what sense? Does it mean that our only duty is to obey the laws and submit, without question, to the authority of our agents who govern us? That suggestion, which would be valid in a despotic society, is intolerable where men, as we say, "govern themselves." If it were true what is the purpose of those "checks and balances" by which each of the separate...
...Commerce. For labor, the leader is John Lewis, who pulled his mine workers out of the A.F.L. (for the second time) after it declined to boycott the act. It was also Lewis who was most hurt by the act when the U.M.W. was fined $1.4 million for refusing to obey a no-strike injunction issued under Taft-Hartley...
...Camus makes us redefine our terms, he gives to the rebel a positive significance that is novel. "I will not obey," says Camus' rebel, but he does not stop there. "I will not obey," he says, "because I cannot do so and still be myself. Either you grant me the right to realize myself, or I shall destroy...
...world in which he has long ceased to be undisputed master, and into a region where he is still very much the boss. Outwardly, but only outwardly, American business has become strongly feminized. Industrial giants get down on their knees before the woman shopper, promising to love, honor and obey. The U.S. office landscape is full of wire bras, pancake makeup, and clouds of Chanel No. 5 rising from filing cabinets. Of the total U.S. labor force of 63 million, nearly one-third are women, twice as big a proportion as 60 years ago. Nevertheless, there are not enough...