Word: push
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...entangling red tape for farmers. The helping voice: Henry Agard Wallace, 72, Agriculture Secretary under Franklin Roosevelt, Vice President during F.D.R.'s third term, presidential candidate of the Red-tinged Progressive Party in 1948. Said Wallace: Kennedy's "parity of income" for farmers (TIME, Oct. 3) would push up retail food prices by an average of 25%-the same figure that Nixon has used in campaign speeches. Furthermore, Wallace went on, the Kennedy farm program "would require a large staff of public employees to handle licenses and inspections. I studied mathematics, and I have dealt with farm affairs...
...ready to push on into the final week of the cam paign (New York, South Carolina, Texas, Wyoming, Washington, California), Nixon could figure that the whistle-stop tour and Ike's impressive last-minute intervention had helped to reinforce his margin in areas where Republicans should run strong. Would it also reverse the Kennedy trend so many people were talking about? The hurdles ahead for Richard Nixon were high and hard, and he was tired and anything but cocky...
...lest it step up the U.S. outflow of gold to nations with higher interest rates (see The Solid Gold Problem). Even more important, FRB is moving slowly because, like everyone else, it is unsure about where the economy is going - and whether it needs a nudge or a big push of easier credit...
Page R-3 of yesterday's Weekly Review contained an error in part of the press run. The sentence beginning "After victory. . ." should read "After victory in November, FDR tried to push through his famous 'courtpacking bill' and to add six justices to the Supreme Court...
...voters step into the voting booths next Tuesday. In these dying days of the campaign, Mr. Eisenhower has taken off the kid gloves and is in there swinging for his party. Will this increased activity suffice to woo some of the luke warm support away from Kennedy and push the undecided voters into Nixon's camp? Undoubtedly, a few Kennedy partisans will be forced to reexamine their choice as a result of the President's efforts. But in the main these people are Democrats who, after an eight-year flirtation with the enemy are somewhat relieved to be able...