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Cold Water. Erhard is no coddler of big business. When the Saar voted to return to Germany in 1955, a group of Saar industrialists asked for subsidies to help them make the transition from the French to the German market. Growled Erhard: "We jumped into the cold water in 1948, and look how we learned to swim. You'll learn even more quickly." He has waged long and bitter war on cartels. Germany is the fatherland of the cartel, and before World War II, an estimated 2,000 cartel agreements were in force in the Reich. Blocked...
...January 1954 issue Confidential called Editor Stuart, among other things, an admitted extortioner, a hate peddler and a coddler of Communists. To keep the $9,000 in settlement of his $250,000 suit (and presumably to keep Confidential's vulnerability confidential). Stuart had to agree not to discuss the case or publicize it beyond printing the outcome in his paper. Confidential's lawyers can now turn their attention to the magazine's other libel suits filed by such better-known figures as Doris Duke, Errol Flynn and Robert Mitchum, and totaling at the latest count...
Listing names, dates and places, Lacerda cited four consuls, two chargés d'affaires and three home-office functionaries as Reds. The chief coddler of the Communists, Lacerda said, is Career Diplomat Orlando Leite Ribeiro, "a personal friend of Communist Leader Luis Carlos Pres-tes." After Leite Ribeiro became head of the foreign ministry's administration department in 1951, charged Tribuna, Reds were brought into the ministry and Reds already in the foreign service got remarkable promotions. Items: A woman Communist was hired as a code clerk in the home office, where she is in position...
...messages are incoherent, self-canceling and wildly contradictory. But their common purpose is the big smear. With a calculated appeal to the varying prejudices of their intended readers, they portray Ike in bewildering succession as a Roman Catholic, a sick man, a Jew, a warmonger, a white supremacist, a coddler of Negro troops, a tool of Russia, a lackey of Wall Street, a front for New Dealers and a pal of Joe Stalin...
...provide workers with security. When times were bad, Crown Zellerbach and the other paper mills developed work-sharing plans that kept employment stable throughout West Coast paper mills; now, with work plentiful, it has cooperated with the workers in setting up health and retirement insurance plans. No coddler of employees, Crown Zellerbach thinks workers should shoulder more responsibility. For example, the average Crown Zellerbach employee works with equipment worth $25,000 (in 1940), and is asked to suggest ways to make it more efficient. At its largest mill the company gets up to 100 suggestions a month, finds about...