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...immoral administrative betrayal of a great economic system." He agreed with President Truman that the U.S. national income might well reach $300 billion in five years, but added: "We must take care that we are still dealing in dollars at the end of five years, and not in cigar coupons . . . We have had enough pretty words, enough vague promises to do better next year or next decade, enough planned devaluation of sound money, enough economic confusion . . . in short, we have had enough . . . We must . . . turn the tide of waste, extravagance and moral dishonesty which today characterizes the deliberate and calculated...
...situation in terms other than railroading, observed: "He seems to be inviting us to get into bed with the Truman Administration-just to get warm. Nobody ever came out of that situation just warmed." A Houston banker emerged from a closed meeting with the Secretary snarling over his cold cigar: "If that guy means what he says, how can he stay in the Truman Cabinet? I don't see how he can look himself in the eye in his shaving mirror every morning...
...controlled Spanish press, which had been treating touring Congressmen as if each was a cigar-chomping oracle, bottled the story up tight for 24 hours. Then Madrid's Arriba burst forth with an angry editorial which accused Pfeifer and his two companions-Democratic Congressmen Clement J. Zablocki of Wisconsin and Thomas S. Gordon of Illinois-of "malice and shortsightedness." What was Spain going to do about the U.S.? Cried Arriba: "The answer is simple. Nothing. We are going to do nothing at all. We don't need the U.S. for military adventures. Our fleet does not need American...
...handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer and snake charmer, for research indicating that the flavor of a cigar is enhanced if dipped occasionally in beer; Harvardman ('11) Joe Gould, perennial Greenwich Village drink-cadger and author of an uncompleted 9,000,000-word book (An Oral History of Our Time), for turning out a new couplet...
...library has its historical curios: among them, Harvard's first character (1650), the one surviving book from John Harvard's library, and Edwin Booth's last cigar. But its more significant treasures are the great numbers of early printed books, many of them dating from before 1500, and its "author" collections. Quite a number of books are on view. (behind glass) in the Library's lobby or in the lavish exhibition room...