Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appropriations Committeemen considered the President's budget, which had "staggered" Chairman John Taber of New York. Illinois' Everett Dirksen lectured his colleagues: "You will get no credit either in your constituency or in heaven for having wasted money...
Because a Congressman's remarks are privileged, Messrs. Acheson and Clayton could not sue Representative Shafer for libel. All they could do was deny the obviously ridiculous charges. Will Clayton pointed out that the Commodity Credit Corp. had itself made most foreign cotton shipments in the last fiscal year, had supervised the rest "to the substantial benefit of the Government and the American cotton farmer." Dean Acheson announced that he had given up his law practice the day he entered the State. Department, had since had "no connection with or financial interest in the business of the firm...
Caught up with most of its commitments abroad, the Government's Commodity Credit Corp. curtailed its wheat-buying program. One result: the price of January wheat tumbled 5⅜? a bushel to $2.13½. (On the basis of other futures buying, it would be down to $1.92⅝ by May and $1.75 by July.) With some 4,300,000 cattle fattening in the nation's feed lots (the alltime high, in 1943: 4,445,000), livestock prices in Chicago dropped "to $22.75 a hundredweight, the lowest since meat was decontrolled...
...Credit for the imaginative experiment must be divided equally between Montgomery (who has been nagging his studio for years to let him try it) and wealthy, conservative MGM, which did all right for itself at the 1946 box office (see above) by just sticking to big, safe production techniques and big, safe stars...
...their share of the credit should be, Capra and Stewart couldn't have made "It a Wonderful Life" by themselves. It takes quite a supporting cast to seem good in the face of a performance as awesomely fine as Stewart's, but Donna Reed, Henry Travers, and Lionel Barrymore do so throughout. Barrymore, incidentally, is the villain of the piece, a senile banker who lives only to make everybody, especially Stewart, miserable. The plot of the picture consists of Stewart's battle to keep him from succeeding...