Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What an appalling blunder in public relations ... If Mrs. Roosevelt's attitude constitutes anti-Catholicism, then I've got news for the cardinal: this country is just full of "anti-Catholics" who feel just as she does on this subject. And his methods have done anything but lessen their number...
There seemed to be a good chance that the President's military aide had done so only for the most pathetic of rewards-for flattery, good fellowship and a fool's false sense of power...
Friendship. Whatever the final outcome of the investigation, it had already defined the kind of dank atmosphere in which Vaughan's good friend Hunt and his colleagues had operated. If Vaughan himself had done nothing worse, he had used the White House as a means of playing low-grade county-courthouse politics. At week's end, the President was still sticking firmly to the position he had assumed during his weekly press conference -that nothing which had happened had changed his opinion of his old friend Harry Vaughan in the slightest. Mulling Harry Truman's stubborn friendship...
...remedy looked more like sulphur & molasses than penicillin, but it might ease the pains a little. The biggest spending departments and agencies of the Government were ordered to place as many Government contracts as possible in areas where unemployment is chafing the most-when it can be done without hurting any other regions too much...
Although President Truman, who appointed McCabe, has done plenty of talking about raising taxes, the FRB chairman's remedy was just the opposite. The big trouble now, said Tom McCabe, was that there was a great shortage of risk capital, although "such risk taking has long been an American tradition." Businessmen either did not have the cash or found investment too risky in the face of high taxes. The thing to do, he said, was to ease taxes on business and businessmen. McCabe recommended that Congress study the entire tax structure, and consider such changes...