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...Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps. Still not up to traveling the 30 miles of winter roads, Cripps received his degree in absentia. Following the Bristol tradition of lightsome eulogies, a university Latin professor said of Sir Stafford: "His favorite drink is water; his favorite food, a scraped carrot. While in politics he is left of the left, in matters of right and wrong he is inclined to be right . . . He is gifted with a winning voice which can make the warnings of Cassandra sound like the love note of Apollo...
...less money was wasted." Beteta was particularly successful in cutting down income-tax evasion. He promised his countrymen absolution from past sins if they would pay up present taxes; then he got a law passed threatening them with jail if they did not go straight in the future. The carrot-and-stick technique worked fine, but Beteta is still not satisfied. "We have not caught up with the U.S.," he sighed. "There, you may not be able to put a gangster in jail for murder, but you can always get him for tax evasion. For a finance minister, that...
Unable to afford the $230 plane fare, Morton took the bus. On the back seat he sat upright with Donald cradled in his arms, fed him carrot juice and Pablum, comforted him when his pains grew worse, breathed air into his nostrils when he choked. At one point a party of drunks tried to force the Mortons off the back seat because they were taking up too-much room. "For the first time in my life," said gentle Farmer Morton, "I resisted...
Colonel Growdon, a lean, carrot-topped tanker with the cold blue eyes and competent air of a professional fighting man, rode at the van. His Pattons snorted through desolate villages, past a British Churchill tank destroyed in the defense of Seoul last year, past South Korean civilians whose tentative manseis showed their bewilderment over this latest thrust of armed forces through their countryside. There was little sign of the enemy. Occasionally a single rifle shot, or a flurry of shots, rang out. Once a jeep, hustling around a sweeping curve, hit a Russian-made wooden-boxed mine; in a thundering...
This was the carrot technique; bondholders would be modestly rewarded for holding on to Government securities. Was there a hidden stick? No one could tell until the terms and details of the new issue were announced. Nor did the +¼% sign which Treasury and FRB waved as a symbol of peace represent a final settlement of the differences between them...