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Taft had been discussing the high price of food and what he thought should be done to allay it. "Voluntary reduction of consumption," he said, "is the first step. We should eat less . . . eat less meat and eat less extravagantly." He went right on talking. The Chicago Daily News's Ed Lahey broke in, gave him a chance to get off the hook by asking: "Do you think that would cover the whole populace...
...evidence that the Democratic machine in Kansas City had falsified primary election returns last August-and that machine was very close to Harry Truman; it had put him in the Senate. The behavior of the Democratic Senators in the face of this threat was not such as to allay suspicion: they had closed ranks, made it a party issue, and blocked the investigation. Beaten earlier, the Republicans tried a flank movement in the final hours by holding up confirmation of Democrat Philip B. Perlman as Solicitor General. It was 3:35 a.m. before they finally gave up. Perlman was confirmed...
Shudders will go up a lot of spines because of James Burnham's new book (The Struggle for the World-John Day; $3) published just five days after President Truman's historic message to Congress (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Burnham's purpose is neither to create nor allay shudders, but to stiffen the national spine...
...allay police unrest the Prefecture of Police asked the Government to approve a twelve-franc (10^) bonus for every policeman who reports a street accident...
...wrecked, but the chances of dodging the larger chunks of falling lava (the biggest I saw was the size of a small watermelon) appeared good enough, and the natural rain from the clouds which formed under the great tornado of smoke overhead managed to allay the sulfuric fumes...