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...historically, it has been the one activity in the last week where the tune hasn't been called by a conservative Administration. Consequently, Class Day has usually had a quality of strenuous abandon, not to mention drunkenness and obscenity, and more than once, shocked officials have been forced to clamp down the lid in order to preserve the good name of the College...
...Saenz, Archbishop of Seville, measured Protestantism against "atheistic and Soviet Communism" as being among "other grave dangers which perhaps are more to be feared because they inspire less horror." The van-dalistic raids on Protestant churches that followed simmered down last year, when the Spanish government began to clamp down more tightly than ever on Protestant activities...
...Economy. Stand-by power to clamp on price controls, allocation and rationing of scarce materials; stronger rent controls; strong federal support of farm prices; ratification of an agreement which would guarantee U.S. farmers an export market of 185 million bushels of wheat a year for the next five years; government construction of more grain bins; crop insurance: a broad program of soil conservation, rural electrification, reclamation; development of more TVAs...
...acquire that increment of manpower, Secretary Forrestal would clamp selective service on the 3,600,000 young men aged 19 to 25. To provide the added strength, and constant replacements, the total number needed in the first year: 720,000. Even with deferments for World War II veterans, married men, doctors, scientists, etc., it ought not to be hard for the Government to fill that quota. It might be hard on some young men. The draft would be for a minimum of two years. The Government might register all U.S. men from 19 to 45, just to have everybody...
...Clamp back 50% of the wartime excess-profits tax; postpone tax reductions another two years...