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Also tied up by the Senate committee were four proposals to limit the President and Vice President to one term; others to abolish the closed shop, to reorganize the Cabinet. So far as the House was concerned, all these could wait, but the Fulbright resolution was something else again. If it could not be submitted to the voters, it was at least going to get some public discussion...
...wrote Indignant Citizen to the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. Indignant Citizen had been roused by a characteristic Peglerian display of calculated bad temper, in which Pegler accused Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal of "a dangerous conspiracy . . . to abolish the freedom of the whole people." The Tallahassee paper, well aware that everybody talks about Pegler but nobody does anything about him, said it would take a vote if enough readers demanded one. The demands quickly filled three columns. Among them...
When the stubborn House of Representatives balked at passing a bill which would merely have eliminated the poll tax for servicemen, Governor Arnall rushed to the chamber, dramatically told the House that, if it did not abolish the tax entirely, he would do so by executive decree. Thus scourged into line, the House and the Senate passed the repealer...
Below this level, the budget would show a deficit; above it, he hopes for a surplus to pay off the national debt. Taxes, once set, would be left alone. In addition he would reform the tax system along the lines of the now familiar Ruml-Sonne plan to abolish corporation taxes (TIME, Aug. 7), put the tax burden on income taxpayers. As a corollary, he would reform the policy on public works...
...supreme problem for every right-thinking man and woman [is] how to establish and maintain the peace of the world, how to abolish for all time this wicked insanity of war. . . . It is a moral problem. ... If we fail to solve it as a moral problem we will solve it permanently in no other...