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Gearing up for the U.S. Census Bureau's regular ten-year chore, Census Boss Robert W. Burgess announced that once again no questions on religion will be included in the 1960 census. Reason: pressure from such groups as the American Civil Liberties Union, American Jewish Congress, Seventh-day Adventists, some Christian Science organizations, who feel (since the public is required by law to answer census questions) that by asking about religious affiliations, the Government would be violating the doctrine of separation of church and state...
F.D.R.'s alienation from the aristocracy at Harvard should not be exaggerated, however. Most members of his social class still accepted him. Herbert Burgess, a Fly Club brother, remarked that "his charm and ease of manner were apparent in those early days." And while he may have been disappointed in not making the "Porc," the Fly, then as now, was considered one of the better clubs...
...Rock opinion was plainly turning against him. A Friday night meeting of hard-shell Baptists-to which, in their own words, "Jews, Catholics and modernist Protestants" [and, of course, Negroes] had not been invited-drew perhaps 600 restless souls to hear North Little Rock's Rev. E. T. Burgess intone, as a final prayer: "Especially, dear Father, we pray for the man who sent troops to Arkansas and then went back to the golf course as if nothing had happened...
...Named retiring Under Secretary of the Treasury W. Randolph Burgess, 68, of Queenstown, Md. to be permanent U.S. representative on the NATO Council with the rank of ambassador, replacing George W. Perkins, resigned. ¶Ordered, while weekending at Gettysburg, that the hurricane-blasted areas of Louisiana and Texas (see below) be made eligible for emergency financial aid from his $10 million disaster fund...
Another Thought. But someone else on the team seemed to be thinking in those terms. Almost at the moment Ike made his statement, Treasury Under Secretary W. Randolph Burgess was telling the Senate Finance Committee that a $2 billion to $3 billion budget cut would be "a sound thing." Next day Burgess hurried back to the witness table, cryptically called his variance with the President's views "a false alarm." Like his hair-curling boss, George M. Humphrey, the Under Secretary succeeded only in adding to the impression -valid or not-that the Administration is sharply divided...