Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think this is the time to put the Federal Government back into a thing of this kind, this kind of function, when we are on a curve of rising prosperity." To which Mitchell's allies reply: the soundest way to head off pump-priming pressures is to strengthen unemployment protection until employment rides along up the curve...
...activity against the United States Government would, as the Supreme Court argued in the Nelson case of 1956, conflict with and duplicate Federal legislation which has pre-empted the field. The other ABA recommendations--to give the Secretary of State broad power to withhold passports from "alleged subversives," to strengthen the already too stringent Smith Act, to extend the already too wide security program, to tighten immigration laws requiring the deportation of Communists (probably unconstitutional, and at least unjust, as they stand)--similarly represent dangerous incursions upon individual political liberty...
Fire & Water. As is inevitable among equal partners, everybody had his own emphasis. Charles de Gaulle, anxious to strengthen his ties with West Germany, argued that it would look like a surrender to Russia's six-month ultimatum if the Western allies suggested any date at all for a big power conference on Germany, and felt that the British were in too great a hurry to talk to the Soviets...
...some of the years now given to elementary and junior high schools, fill them with high school level courses. ¶ Legislate widespread and continuous federal aid to education. ¶ Keep local control of curriculum, but strengthen schools by the establishment of national minimum standards. Hechinger suggests a National Board of Education Advisers, appointed by the President, from citizens of widely varied occupation. The board, apparently, would determine only the minimum attention given to each subject; Hechinger would rule out "any interference with matters of personnel, curriculum, teaching methods and the selection of textbooks...
...last year's bad joke has become enough of a threat to arouse widespread concern and organized opposition. The proprietor of the scheme claims that whether the platform is used for industry or apartments it will considerably strengthen the city's tax base by, in effect, adding taxable land to the map of Cambridge. At the same time the artificial peninsula would enliven the city's skyline, he says...