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...Washington, the Senate beat down an amendment proposed by Senator Wayne Morse (R-Ore.) to cut Air Force, Navy, and Marine minimum enlistments from four to three years. Morse accused these branches of the service of "stock-piling" manpower by "grabbing more men than they can absorb...or train properly...
What we need is a "league for reaction," composed of teams that want to stay out of the commercial race. It could have an Ivy League nucleus of four or five teams, and could absorb colleges in any part of the country that wanted to stick to amateur standards. It would be a league of principle, not price, and would give its members the opportunity for a varied and reasonable schedule...
...grandiose inferiority complex, Miller will find a different and in some respects greatly improved situation. President Getulio Vargas has announced that he wants to cooperate with the U.S. on a reciprocal basis. In particular, he wants industrialization loans. Miller, who knows as well as Vargas that Brazil can absorb far more in development loans than the $175 million the U.S. has allotted in the last two years, will take along Francis Adams Truslow, retiring head of the New York Curb Exchange (see BUSINESS). Truslow's assignment: to provide expert financial advice and get the Point Four ball rolling...
Some Jargon, Some Quackery. There would be sacrifices for all to bear. The defense program might absorb up to a third of such basic commodities as copper, aluminum and rubber. Workers would have to "accept restraints and controls upon wages," forgo strikes. Families would have to make "their household goods last longer, their automobiles and appliances, their linen and clothes." Everyone would have to pay higher taxes (see above...
Doubts Creep In. Some Senators doubted if the services could absorb draftees quickly enough, even if the 18-year-old manpower pool was made available. Said Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, subcommittee chairman: "You come up before this committee asking us to draw up legislation for the drafting of 18-year-olds, and at the same time men are rapping at your door and you can't take them...