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...state's $50 million veterans' trust fund, set up in 1946. Even if he can find a way to get at the trust fund, Soapy will still have to push for tax increases to keep the state solvent. Republicans in the legislature have proposed to blot up the red ink by upping the sales tax to 4%, but Soapy Williams adamantly opposes any sales tax boost, urges instead a progressive state income tax on middle and upper bracket incomes and a new 5% levy on corporation profits-which would worsen Michigan's already severe problem of attracting...
...investments of many years were justified and paid out in the Quemoy crisis of 1958. The second and never-to-be-forgotten lesson is that the Communist intentions remain as they have been in the past-to eliminate the U.S., all its forces and influences from Asia, and gradually blot up the small countries. If they are ever successful in this fundamental objective of causing U.S. withdrawal, the map of the world can be remade in weeks...
...shirt, hat-and with bugged recordings to back up Gilbert's story. The Rangers had listened in while one Buck Owens, ex-Teamster bullyboy turned Ranger informer, tossed leading questions at San Antonio Teamster Business Manager Raymond Shafer in motel room conversations. Sample exchange, splashed with BEEPs to blot out the profanity...
...CRIMSON, in sponsoring the contest, apparently misjudged the liberality of the Harvard community. The episode is now closed, but the travesty on justice which ended it will remain a dark blot on Harvard's escutcheon for years to come...
Thus ended the latest round of hearings on the Teamsters, which added up to the greatest blot on the record of U.S. organized labor. As for Slippery Jim, he announced that he will call a special Teamster election for February (at a cost of $1,500,000) to get out from under the three monitors appointed by a Federal District Court last January to see to it that Jimmy cleans up his union. At week's end two of the three monitors asked the court to cancel plans for the election because Hoffa has not even begun to comply...