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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invitations confronted the prisoners' families with a difficult choice. They were torn between a desire to see their imprisoned kin, doubts about Red China's motive, and the practical difficulties involved in making the trip. The most enthusiastic of the invited were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fischer Sr. of Swea City, Iowa, the parents of Air Force Captain Harold Fischer. For some time they had been writing to their son and to his captors about visiting him. Farmer Fischer had written that he might bring along some of his registered Hampshire hogs. His son had reported the reaction...
Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, said "I feel there should be justice, what ever the results may be. I think we should help him, like any man, through a difficult time...
Joseph Morrell Dodge, no philosopher -but a hardheaded Detroit banker-knows that President Eisenhower did not bring him back to Washington five weeks ago just to "make policy." As coordinator of the foreign economic activities of the U.S., Dodge is supposed to bring about a result almost as difficult and far more inspiring than turning a centipede into a mouse. His objective: to bind together the hundreds of scattered and often contradictory foreign economic activities of the U.S. into an intelligible whole that will make reality of the U.S. economic leadership in the free world...
...Glens Falls, N.Y. The painting, a gift from Banker Dodge to Ike, represents the friendship between two men of vastly dissimilar backgrounds and personalities. It may also remind the President that Dodge will need all the help he can get in solving one of Washington's most difficult puzzles: how to make a foreign economic policy that is both exciting and practical, one that will imbue the free world with a sense of confident expansion and at the same time teach, in terms practical enough for Banker Dodge, the hard, useful lessons of U.S. business practice...
...plan, this is the first time a percentage exemption has received such well organized support. Backers argue that the combination of inflation and low interest rates have reduced the amount which endowments contribute to educational costs, while high income taxes have made it more difficult to meet heavy expenses...