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...responsible for the sluggishness of U.S. economic growth in recent years. Among last week's voices calling for prompt and hefty tax cuts to stimulate economic growth were Hubert H. Humphrey, one of the Senate's most conspicuous liberals, and H. Ladd Plumley, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Implicit in the consensus on taxes is a recognition by liberals that Government expenditures cannot create sustainable prosperity, that individual incentives perform indispensable economic functions. President Kennedy has made that recognition explicit. Present tax rates, he said recently, "are so high as to weaken the very essence...
...Does anyone know of any man who has lived with greater faith or purpose, and obedience to the exhortation of the Prophet Micah to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with God'?" A Catholic. President J. P. O'Keefe of Salt Lake City's Chamber of Commerce said: "All of us have been keenly aware of the advantages of living m Utah. And almost all these advantages can be attributed to the leadership of President McKay...
...crack team of CBS foreign correspondents will discuss their worldwide newsbeats today at 12 noon at a luncheon at the Bradford Hotel in Boston. Tickets for the discussion part of the program only are available at the door at special student rates. The visit is sponsored by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and station WEEI...
Some of the outraged or apprehensive witnesses who showed up in Washington last week represented organizations or industries who batten on expense-account living. Henri G. Foussard, president of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, insisted that "wives have as much right to eat on the expense account as the First Lady does"* And President Andrew Ziomek of the National Licensed Beverage Association lugubriously predicted massive losses for bars and taverns, which "have provided the lubricant that has greased the wheels of American industry...
...comic, like Mrs. Amelia Bloomer. For better or for worse, the U.S. has taken a good deal of his advice. Strikers, for instance, whose cause Sinclair fought from Pasadena to Passaic, are no longer jailed out of hand by local police chiefs acting under the orders of the Chamber of Commerce. Late in his autobiography there is a wistful recognition of the fact that no one any longer thinks of him as an enemy of established society and that the world he rebelled against has disobligingly vanished...