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...case in point was last week's embarrassing snafu over rent controls. Word had seeped out that the Administration was leady to okay a blanket 10% raise in rents. An order to that effect had, in fact, been drawn by the Office of Temporary Controls. But the question promptly arose: Why should Harry Truman be saddled with this political liability? He wasn't. He made OTC Director Philip B. Fleming the goat, announced that he never had been in favor of a rent increase, and said the whole matter was up to Congress anyway-which it unquestionably...
...hours later, Frau Budde died on a red plush sofa, wrapped in a thin army blanket supplied by Faseler (she had none of her own). Dr. Elfriede Acker, who handles about 120 frostbite patients a day, reported death by freezing. For six days, Frau Budde lay on her plush sofa, while the wind whipped the brown paper that covered the windows. At last, overworked attendants removed her to an overcrowded cemetery. It was much too cold for Old Man Faseler to attend the funeral...
...Blanket & the King. Karsh likes to highlight his sitters against simple settings, often an old grey army blanket pinned against the wall. When he photographed King George VI in London, the Buckingham Palace backgrounds were too ornate to set off the King's gold-braided admiral's uniform. Out came the old blanket, and His Majesty helped to hang it in place...
...program created by Cordell Hull; Nebraska's high-tariff Senator Hugh Butler has written Assistant Secretary of State Clayton asking him to postpone trade negotiations with 18 nations. Republican Congressmen would like to scrutinize some 3,000 pending trade agreement items before any agreements are made under the blanket authority delegated by Democratic Congresses to the President...
Social customs among the fossil cultures have been unchanged by the progress of the rest of the world. Example: the ceremonies among some Chaco tribes when a girl reaches puberty. She cowers in a hut with a blanket over her head while long lines of older women parade around her, striking the ground with sticks, rattling bunches of deer hooves. Medicine men beat drums. Young men, masked like evil spirits, howl on the outskirts, try to break through the picket line. The coming-out party lasts a month. Then the pickets disperse; the girl throws off the blanket, takes...