Word: programed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section most visibly marked with the committee's sweat was that on a farm program. Here the program committee hung on the two-horned dilemma that has gored every New Deal effort to make sense of farm aid-i) price-wrecking farm surpluses, 2) the ancient gap between the prices a farmer gets and the prices he pays...
...program sensibly admitted that some temporary emergency farm policy must be devised to meet the problems of surplus and disparity, then charged that the New Deal failure was in placing emergency policies, "not economically sound for the long-haul," on a permanent basis...
...program for Business differentiated between a system of free enterprise and a politically planned-and-dominated economy. The only qualifications on freedom of enterprise, said Mr. Frank, should be "protective" regulation (GOP), as distinguished from "restrictive" regulation (Democratic...
...social program ardently wooed the Negro vote, arguing that the New Deal's attention to Negro relief needs had actually operated to shunt Negroes out of normal productive enterprise into a status of a separate relief economy. A section on Housing demanded the stimulation of private enterprise to build 4,656,000 needed housing units...
...many a newspaper the program drew meager headlines; more exciting as immediate news had been the selection of Philadelphia as the convention city, of June 24 as the convention date. Dopesters had picked Chicago; GOP wiseacres wanted to meet in borderline Illinois. But Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly promised a mingy $125,000 to meet convention expenses; more eloquently Philadelphia's Mayor Robert Lamberton promised to lay $200,000 on the line. Money talked...