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...fools to vote against it. Under Freeman's guidance, six U.S. farmer organizations formed a National Wheat Committee to harvest yes votes. The committee has recruited townspeople in wheat areas-bankers, merchants, lawyers, local officials-to help persuade the farmers. In Keenesburg. Colo., for example, the Citizens State Bank placed in the local newspaper an ad warning farmers that the bank will have to tighten credit to wheat farmers if the Freeman plan is voted down. "Blackjack Tactics." Freeman's battle for yes votes has brought charges that he is violating the spirit...
...district attorney, one of the very great governors of the state of New York, a tough fellow in a fight, and a good loser, Thomas E. Dewey. The only man who got honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale and Princeton in one week, Eugene R. Black, who made the World Bank one of the pillars of our world. Billy Phelps taught generations of Yale-men that the test of a great play was whether or not it sent tingles up your spine. One name which does that to me is that great American hero, Douglas Mac-Arthur. We proudly boast that...
Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman George Champion, for example, claims that the Kennedy proposals "put too much emphasis on stimulating consumption," when, in fact, "consumers have increased their spending by no less than $70 billion in the past five years." Corporations need a bigger share of any tax cut, he contends, to spur investment. There is even more controversy over the Administration's proposals for continued high Government spending, which would bring a budget deficit of $10.9 billion...
...Cage to Vault. A small, enthusiastic and well-read man whose heroes are the Renaissance Medici, Don Bruno has always followed the green flag of money and charmingly ingratiated himself with men of wealth, power and connections. At 19, he followed his merchant father to the U.S., learned the banking business from cage to vault at San Francisco's Bank of Italy under the immigrant Gianninis, and turned a substantial fortune speculating in stocks. On vacations in Mexico, he struck up a profitable palship with Manuel Avila Camacho, who, on becoming President in 1940, invited Pagliai to settle...
Since most young Germans inevitably yearn for white-collar respectability and higher salaries, the largest number of apprentices in Germany today are training to become merchants, bank workers, and salesmen. German labor unions have no quarrel with the apprentice system, but are watchful to protect apprentices from being mistreated or misused as cheap labor. The unions hardly need worry; in labor-short Germany, it is a foolish firm indeed that would do anything to scare off future skilled workers...