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...Edwin G. Nourse, titular head of the President's economic advisers. He began his speech by skeptically questioning a glittering prediction by his economist colleague, Leon Keyserling, of a $350 billion national income by 1958, with a $4,000 minimum a year for almost every family. Mr. Truman later used this as the basis for a new political...
Answer to a Desire. After Harry Truman's re-election and the triumphant upsurge in Washington of the Fair Deal, Keyserling began to move in. Almost any time Nourse opened his mouth in public, Keyserling, from his adjoining office, wrote him a long-winded and challenging letter, keeping carbons for the record. Patiently Nourse replied by letter-also for the record. Increasingly Nourse dissented from Harry Truman's economic views; consistently Keyserling agreed with them, supported them. Finally Nourse wrote his resignation, remarking to a friend after the President's 1949 Economic Report to Congress...
Scoring credit went to outside left Berk Johnson at 5:48 of the second period and to contor forward Bengt Sandberg at 9:05 of the third. But the Yardlings real star was right fullback Charley Ufford, whose long-legged kicking, heading, and tackling almost single-handedly contained Exter's clover attack, which previously had beaten five straight opponents...
Bruce Munro's varsity was a tired team after it was all over. The Crimson paid for the honor of being the first east coast soccer team ever to fly to game, for the plane was almost two hours late landing at Washington. The squad didn't get to bed until...
...jowled but in his face remains most of the vigor of his younger self. You stop and think if the stories about his being on his deathbed when he was in jail at Danbury in 1946 have any truth in them. A capable conversationalist, Curley can talk on almost any subject with the facility of a specialist, the gift of a retentive memory stands by him well. From a small amount of reading, he is able to glean and store a warehouse of facts; one of the reasons that he was so valuable in the national campaign...