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Pentagon planners, looking for one of those catchy alphabetical abbreviations to pin on the command of Allied defense forces in Europe, decided on SHAPE. This, they said, would stand for Supreme Headquarters, Atlantic Powers in Europe. Still needed: a head to fit the SHAPE. Still the likeliest bet: Ike Eisenhower...
In 1932, Herbert Hoover had set up RFC to lend $1.5 billion to ailing banks and industries. Then the Democrats fattened and pampered it like one of their own alphabetical children, bolstered its lending power to $18.8 billion, and put it into the wartime business of running rubber plants, Central...
He does not get his way by pounding the table; he uses men by flattering them, charming them with silky good humor, or freezing them with quiet contempt. His political pliability sometimes leads him to weakness. Recently, the Socialists introduced a bill in the Bundestag providing cash Christmas gifts for...
New Equality. After a little more grumbling, the Senate gave in-but not before it had lopped almost a half off the President's proposal, which the House had already approved. Cabinet officers were jumped from $15,000 to $22,500 a year (instead of the $25,000 Harry...
Then, in alphabetical order of their countries, the ministers stepped forward to sign-Belgium, Canada, Denmark,