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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ADLAI STEVENSON could only benefit by a Brown win. Pat Brown was one of Stevenson's presidential boosters in 1952, backed him strongly again in 1956. Urged on by powerful Stevenson Democrats in California, Brown would be agreeably inclined toward Stevenson in 1960 and might hope to be Illinoisan Stevenson's running mate...
...bond market is still in the throes of a shake-out that Wall Streeters compare to the '29 crash in stocks. With the benefit of hindsight, bond experts lay the blame on Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. Eager to stretch out the public debt, i.e., lengthen the maturing period of Government bonds, Anderson brought out medium and long-term bond issues in June, a poor time because the market was at the top of a speculative binge that had boosted the price of U.S. bonds (TIME, June 30). Many, gambling on a continued rise, bought the new bonds with nothing...
...only in this way can U.S. distillers compete with the British and Canadians, whose governments have no force-out tax provision. Against Schenley stood Joseph E. Seagram & Sons. Seagram argued that Schenley held 60% to 70% of all the old whisky in the U.S., hence would reap the major benefit. Seagram backed a different proposal of the Distilled Spirits Institute: grant tax relief, but prohibit distillers from labeling their whiskies as over eight years old until all companies have built up big inventories of cobwebbed stocks...
...critical area. "In the long view," wrote Milton in a 1953 report that has since become the foundation of Latin American policy, "economic cooperation, extended to help the people of Latin America raise their level of well-being and further their democratic aspirations, will redound to their benefit and to ours...
...Indiana's caveman Senator William Jenner, in a gallery play, declared Indiana wanted no part of an aid-to-education bill under debate. Passing a bill authorizing $1.5 billion to improve education in the sciences, the Senate also gaily adopted a Jenner amendment exempting Indiana from any benefits. ¶ Senate and House passed a tax law that trims $42 million in excise revenue, principally by lowering the admission tax on theater, movie, baseball and football tickets. Passed also: a tax bill that grants to small businessmen $260 million in fringe-benefit reliefs, e.g., speedier depreciation on equipment...