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With this lackluster picture in mind, President Kennedy issued his call for an $11 billion cut in corporate and personal income taxes. The proposal ran afoul of a Congress-and of some businessmen-reluctant to slash Government income without chopping spending as well. Congressmen were unmoved by arguments that the cuts would ultimately raise federal revenue by stimulating greater business activity. All through the year, they dawdled over the cut, devoted their efforts to squeezing more than $4.5 billion out of the Kennedy fiscal 1964 budget request...
...first place, Havana makes a compelling dateline; in the second place, the government may fall some day or some year, and in that contingency it will be nice to have a man on the spot. There is also, of course, that inevitable day when their man in Havana runs afoul of the authorities for the last time and is sent home. Then, perhaps, he may have quite a story to spin...
...case involved a rather innocent variety of gun-running. C. Murray Sawyer clerk of the court, described Miss Polansky and her friends as "gun-crazy kids" who bought machine guns and other weapons for their collections and to use for target practice. They unwittingly ran afoul of Federal law when they took some of the guns across the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border...
...like telling a boy he can run out to play, then locking the door before he gets through it." When the Chase and First National City tried to make up for lost suburban business in a hurry by merging with established banks in Westchester and Nassau, they ran afoul of the Federal Reserve Board and Controller of Currency James Saxon, who declared that if city banks want to go into the suburbs, they should do so by the tedious, costly route of building new branches of their...
...record as opposing any color bar, but when job shortages occur, the unwritten union rule is "blacks out first." British social workers argue that 90% of the immigrants are hard-working and law-abiding, and that most of the trouble has been caused by the remaining 10%, who run afoul of the law by engaging in prostitution and settling disputes with knives. Under the new act, such criminals can be deported to their homelands. Says a Manchester official: "If we'd had that power for the past few years, there wouldn't be any problem today." Some city...