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...second case of anti-Big Boy politics, the voters of Florida overwhelmingly approved a new state corporate income tax proposed by Democratic Governor Reuben Askew. This came despite massive efforts made against the tax by Florida banks and corporations, including the DuPont Company. The banks went so far as to enclose a piece of anti-tax campaign literature in every bank statement mailed out in the state shortly before the election. The voters refused to respond to the pressure...
A.I.P.'s platform is the straight anti-civil rights, anti-big government Wallace line. The party's purpose is to give George "ballot position" without giving up any of his political options. He will be free to enter Democratic primaries and stay in the presidential race whatever their outcome...
...could indeed-if not exactly in the way that the ex-boxer from Barbour County anticipates. As a self-declared Populist, Wallace has a slick, simplistic charisma. He appeals to Southerners-and some Northerners as well-who are anti-L.B.J., anti-Big Government, anti-high taxes, anti-intellectual and anti-civil rights. Yet, for all his hopes of hurting the incumbent Democratic Administration, Wallace's campaign next year will in all probability boost Lyndon Johnson's prospects of reelection...
...been more liberal than many of his public statements. "It's quite apparent that we have an excessively expensive welfare administrative structure," declares the man who campaigned in industrial areas last fall on his progressive record in education, mental health, pollution control, and social welfare. His frequent lapses into anti-Big Government slogans are typical of his equivocal positions...
...Fair Dealers in Congress, none has a more durable record of sniping at business than Brooklyn's Veteran Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler. Back in 1922 he was elected on an antidepression, anti-Big Business platform, and, so long as the patchwork of tenements, corner drugstores and housing developments that he represents keeps on sending him back, he sees no reason to change his tactics.* In his time, rotund Manny Celler has whaled away at the steel industry and bank mergers, Wall Street and newsprint combines, even probed big-league baseball for suspected monopolistic tendencies (and why a hotdog cost...