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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Change of Mind. In signing, Harry Truman surprised almost everyone. During the long hearings before Congress, he had strongly protested Fair Trade as "not in accord with our program"; government agencies had damned Fair Trade as thwarting free competition and lower prices for consumers. Why had the president changed his mind...
Crawford likes both candidates ("I know Taft's viewpoints and I'm very much in accord with his qualifications. I am waiting to hear more from Eisenhower's own lips, but I have confidence in the people who are backing him"). In fact, the only thing wrong with the two gentlemen, as far as Crawford can see, is that one is bound to lose. Says Crawford worriedly: "We don't want to be in the position of having backed a loser when the winner distributes the patronage...
...capital, Musi-comedienne Carol (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Channing disclosed that her giddy role had not kept her from observing a phenomenon across the local footlights. Her dictum: "Washington audiences come to the theater as researchers. They watch me like hawks and . . . treat me with the deference they would accord to a symphony, but it's impersonal . . . If Americans are ready to accept big people with close-cropped hair and large eyes like me, Washington wants to know about it. I have a feeling I'm being examined and absorbed and filed away, because you never know when...
...than they would be under free and open competition." Then Celler's group surprised everybody, delighted the Fair Traders. It also tentatively decided to okay a bill approving the non-signer clause. (This week the Budget Bureau wrote Celler that "enactment of the legislation would not be in accord with the program of the President.") Outraged, Macy's took ads in Manhattan to blare: "'Fair Trade' is a misleading title. The real title is Price-Fixing...
Francis R. B. Godolphin, Dean of the College, remarked: "This shows how undergraduates working together voluntarily can achieve a result which is clearly in accord with the will of the majority of Princeton men. The result is a magnificent example of responsibility and cooperation on the part of club members and sophomores...