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...brains." ¶After a speech by Boss John L. Lewis (who has not publicly supported a presidential candidate since he broke with Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and supported Willkie), the United Mine Workers' convention in Cincinnati whooped through a resolution endorsing Adlai Stevenson. The Mine Workers' $1.90-a-day wage increase, won in negotiations with mine operators last month, is pending before the Wage Stabilization Board in Washington...
...testified before a House subcommittee last week that until he resigned last November as Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Washington, Bolich had a $12,000 salary and a much higher standard of living. Item: for 18 months in Washington, he had lived in a $20-a-day hotel suite...
...last week called Letourneau "the fierce advocate of a fight to a finish in Viet Nam." As such, he is the best guarantee of the Pinay government's intention to yield neither to the Communists nor to parliamentary critics who want France to cut her $3,000,000-a-day losses in Indo-China and concentrate her military effort on defending the homeland and French North Africa...
Guevara Moreno appeals to Ecuador's 60?-a-day rice-mill laborers, the inflation-struck white-collar class, the rank & file of the army and the wretched unemployed living in the split-bamboo shacks hidden behind Guayaquil's impressive masonry waterfront buildings. Plaza's tolerant democracy, though it provides the free press and elections Guevara needs, is not enough for Guevara, who preaches: "We have in this country a minority in a magnificent situation and a majority in a desperate situation. And Plaza's government, it's for the minority, no?" He calls his followers...
...consideration of the $3,700,000 the Egyptian government appropriates for "among other things, repair of the royal yacht and of palace walls" and $2,000-a-day on-the-Riviera costs, could you not persuade our Congress to divert that "trickle of Point Four aid" from Egypt to local fields...