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...happened, Gordon had all sorts of glowing words to say about the New Frontier's tax program. But the sentiments at issue came while he was under close questioning from dubious members of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. He insisted that "under current condi tions," with the economy sluggish, attempts to balance the budget would be "self-defeating." Reduced federal expenditures would "reduce private production, employment, profits and wages. This, in turn, would lead to lower federal revenue collections, and a deficit would remain...
...overlooked in the election excitement. The captive peoples, he said, "must know that they can draw upon our abundance to tide themselves over the period of economic adjustment" after breaking free of Moscow. What if these governments, like Gomulka's in Poland, are Communist? The U.S. does not "condi tion economic ties between us upon the adoption by these countries of any particular form of society." He also had a message meant to be digested in Moscow: "The U.S. has no ulterior purpose in desiring the independence of the satellite countries . . . We do not look upon these nations...
...Methodist minister and a pianist, Composer Floyd comes by his text (which he wrote in ten days) and score almost by inheritance. And Susan nah powerfully points his moral : that the U.S. "Puritan" heritage has condi tioned us to suspect anyone who is a little different, to equate nonconformity with wrongdoing and evil." More important, it also proved him able to fashion vocal music that is eminently singable - and listenable. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship this year, Floyd plans to spend it composing and writing. Director Erich Leinsdorf, who deserves credit for a fine discovery, can almost surely count...
...Opening of an 800-word statement to the tribunal by a London "conchie": "I hope the tribunal is composed of intelligent men and not retired army officers from India, as I can't stand the sight of whiskey purple and bulging veins, especially in the morning." Verdict: condi tional exemption...
...ready to go forth to heal society. For that job he became managing editor of The Nation. Chairman Medill McCormick of a Senate committee investigating U. S. occupation of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, sent him to those countries to look into condi tions. Thereafter Dr. Gruening became a bitter critic of U. S. policy in Latin America, a champion of all the little nations on whose soil and soul the U. S. had stepped. In 1924 he publicized the presidential candidacy of the venerable Robert La Follette Sr., helped to throw a "Red Scare" into the U. S. electorate...