Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When day was done, it had spelled out a Maybe. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace called the outcome "a clear cut example of economic democracy." Of cotton farmers 82% voted their confidence in a quota-but 92% had been willing to try it for this year, when neither the...
For the future, the Maybe might mean a great deal. It might not mean opposition to the whole farm program, but merely that farmers are not feeling bad enough just now to be willing to take castor oil. But one thing it did not mean was the wholehearted vote of...
This lack of basic harmony among the conferees was nowhere better reflected than in the Conference's opening. Most of the delegates had come with resolutions to propose, and most of the others were willing to accept them-with reservations. They were willing to endorse hemispheric defensive military cooperation...
Last September, believing that the time had come to find out how fully the seven counties realized the measure of their improvement, Dr. Pritchard sent to 80,000 voters a report and a ballot. The ballot asked voters whether they were willing to tax themselves 25? per capita to continue...
Inexperienced skiers should stay off the steep slopes, Niles advised. They should not go out with much better skiers unless the experienced ones are willing to spend the day on a gentle slope teaching them.