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Seldom does a Governmentman give business a pat on its collective back. But one did last week: bushy-browed Clifton Eugene Mack, director of the Treasury Department's Procurement Division, who last November was given the job of buying $55,000,000 of household equipment for 28,500 homes for civilian defense workers (near airfields, barracks, etc.). Asked how his purchases were going, Director Mack said: "In their dealings with us, plumbing, heating and household equipment manufacturers have shown that they place patriotism above their desire for profits...
...interested in trade rows, but only in the lowest prices is Director Mack. Last week, Clifton Mack took a deep, relaxing breath, purred: "It's wonderful...
...days of Technocracy, a retired Scottish engineer named Major Clifton Hugh Douglas, having long sensed a bankers' plot to keep buying power out of motion, brought his Social Credit movement to North America. Its theory-that the State should credit "National Dividends" to its citizens to increase their buying power-was intriguing enough to carry Alberta's provincial election in 1935. Fortnight ago in Buffalo, N. Y., a practical reformer launched a version of Social Credit that would have sent Major Douglas staggering to a neutral corner...
They were not the only confused people. Awaiting them at the dinner were Harper's able, amiable President Cass Canfield; Clifton Paul Fadiman (Information Please), who was master of ceremonies; some dozen Manhattan publishers; 1,500 guests who raised $14,000 for the work of the Exiled Writers Committee. But Exhibits Mann and Werfel did not show...
Opposing John McCormack was pompous, earnest Clifton Woodrum of Roanoke, Va., a varnished, white-haired member who has championed economy by opposing all Federal expenditures which do not directly benefit Virginia. Mr. Woodrum's chances were slim: the White House wanted Mr. McCormack...