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...government financing he has clung to the theory that the people are more qualified than Washington bureaucrats to spend the nation's wealth. His formula: cut Government spending and reduce corporation taxes in order to encourage private initiative. He believes in using taxes for revenue only, not as a tool to control the economy...
Secretary Marshall, recalling World War II, talked in terms of theaters, choices and priorities. On China, his attitude had always been colored by the one failure of a distinguished career. He clung firmly to his stubborn belief that China could now rate no more than the attention of a holding action. This re-opened the question of whether the enemy should be continuously engaged on two fronts or be permitted to concentrate forces...
...State Department, weighing the military argument, still clung to the hope that ERP plus diplomacy might be enough. Privately, the highest Cabinet officers pleaded with legislators for universal military training because of its "moral effect on the Russians." Their argument was full of contradictions. One top administrator summed them up: "We are sure Russia doesn't want war any more than the U.S. but she has set in motion forces which she cannot control...
...armed slugger Tommy Rodgers clung tenaciously to his University boxing crown at last night's festivities at the Blockhouse where College fight fans saw one rapid T.K.O., a couple of pugilistic Ironmen and 16 rugged bouts...
...Socialist Strunsky liked to call himself a "Tory." He clung to certain "oldfashioned beliefs," like the idea that "parents are a useful thing for children to have; that freedom is a good thing for everybody; that America is a pretty good country for its plain people . . . that the story of the occupation of the American continent is not an exclusive record of graft and plunder and wastage [and] that ,the industrial history of America [is] not entirely a story of company Cossacks riding down coal strikers . . . but also the story of a rising standard of living...