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...lowdown on where the world is headed. Grinned the sage of Hobcaw Barony: "I don't know." The reporter expressed amazement. Advised Veteran Pundit Baruch: "I don't see why a man should be more garrulous on his 85th birthday than he was on his 84th-or his 21st. I wanted to talk a hell of a lot when I was 21, but I don't at 85. Besides, I've given all my views...
...situation, including the way I felt, and possibly with the health and everything else, as of that moment, then there would be no great excuse for deferring the decision. "I have not that gift of prophecy." Last week the President also: ¶ Praised the record of the Democratic 84th Congress in the field of foreign affairs ("I for one am deeply grateful"), but sharply criticized its score on domestic legislation. Ike reread his list of "must" bills, which he had first read to the reporters last June (TIME, July 11). Of the 13 items on the list, he said. Congress...
...Capitol Hill, particularly after the U.S. elected a Democratic-controlled Congress last fall, there has been a barrage of anti-business talk. Now that the House and Senate have finished their work for this year, how did business and the businessman actually fare in the first session of the 84th Congress? Within two days after the new Congress organized in January, Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright gave business its first big scare. Chatting with a newsman right after he became chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, Fulbright was asked if he would look into, among other things...
When the record is added up, businessmen fared well in the first session of the 84th Congress. In the investigations, they were lightly tarred by a small group of Fair Dealers. But in legislation-where reason and fairness took hold-they were not hurt. In a year of unprecedented prosperity, when business was hiring more workers, paying more wages and producing more goods than ever before, the U.S. was in no mood to harass its businessmen...
Foreign Trade. With northern Democrats supporting the President's program, reciprocal trade legislation was expanded and extended for three more years. But, in perhaps the most significant development of the 84th Congress, many southern Democrats abandoned their traditional free-trade position, bowed to the South's new industrial interests and voted with the protectionist bloc...