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...where the French had it in 1791), exports plus imports should stay steady at the recent level of $80-$100 million yearly. Since most government revenue comes from import-and-export duties, the budget is likely to remain at around $26 million (v. $8,400,000 ten years ago). CJ Magloire has been able to get along with Trujillo on a general-to-general basis that lets ill-armed Haiti keep its selfrespect before its excessively well-armed neighbor, although there is virtually no trade across the border...
...CJ To be Solicitor General of the U.S. (the Government's lawyer in cases before the Supreme Court), Simon Ernest Sobeloff, 59, Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. A son of Russian-born Jewish parents. Judge Sobeloff is a liberal Republican whose accomplishments as Baltimore's city solicitor and Maryland's U.S. District Attorney have won bipartisan respect in his state. Eisenhower selected him for the job last October, but a factional feud with Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin caused Maryland's Republican Senator Butler to block the appointment for three months. When Butler withdrew...
...returned to New York, practiced law successfully for 24 more years, married an aging prostitute who in a year accused him of infidelity. At 80, Burr, full of years and dishonor, died after making a will in favor of two illegitimate daughters, aged 6 and 2. CJ John Tyler was nominated for Vice President (1840) by the Whigs because, as a Jeffersonian, he was a nuisance to them in the Senate. A month after he was inaugurated, Tyler was playing marbles in a Williamsburg street when Daniel Webster's son brought him the news that President William Henry Harrison...
...Stephen Douglas, later became a combat major general in the Confederacy, and then its Secretary of War. He refused to surrender, fled to Cuba, stole a ship, became a pirate, moved to London, then to Toronto, and died, with his citizenship rights unrestored, in his old Kentucky home. CJ Levi P. Morton (1889-93), a Vermont-born New York banker who was one of the richest men of his day, picked the wrong term to be Vice President (with Benjamin Harrison). He turned down a chance at the Republican nomination in 1880 (he might have succeeded Garfield), and another chance...
...program which takes into account security requirements of all Europe, and the Soviet Union too. ¶ To throw light on Soviet intentions. If the Soviet Union takes a negative position, to make clear that the Soviet Union alone is responsible for the continued division of Germany and of Europe. CJ To keep open the prospect of negotiation with Russia at a later date. ¶ To conclude a treaty to insure political and economic independence of Austria. ¶ In the event of Soviet obstruction, to make clear that the Soviet Union alone is responsible for failure to agree on an Austrian...