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...sure, there are persuasive illustrations ad nauseum of the effect of the Mellon approach on U.S. economic history [TIME Oct. 3]. However, to show its full extent, one fact should be noted. In 1926 the federal gift tax was repealed and the federal estate tax was reduced significantly (except for John Garner, it would have been repealed). This abolition and reduction occurred primarily through the influence of one man, Andrew Mellon...
...wartime carrier commander, Navy member of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of Japan and of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group at Bikini, declared that atomic area bombing would be little more than "random mass slaughter" and militarily unsound. Strategic bombing, he said, did not have a decisive effect in World War II. Cried Ofstie, "It is time that strategic bombing ... be examined in relation to the decent opinions of mankind...
...Spike" Blandy, unlike Ofstie, thought that strategic bombing had had "a marked effect" on Germany's production and mo rale, and conceded that "some" of the Air Force's 6-363 would probably get through and hit their targets. But, he added, "the probable results do not appear to me to be sufficiently promising to justify eliminating any essential forces from other services...
...effect, the election called for a vote of confidence in Norway's four-year-old Socialist experiment, directed by lean, ascetic Commerce Minister Erik Brofoss, a Norse version of Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps...
...obliged in a monotone, following which one of five oldish directors in the front row moved that the minutes be accepted as read. The measure was unanimously approved. This marked the only time during the afternoon that the 30 students exercised their rights of suffrage, but it had the effect of infusing them, at an early stage, with a "sense of belonging." Next on the program was Mr. Ford in an enthusiastic but factual soliloquy entitled "The Treasurer's Report." Mr. Ford prefaced his remarks with a comment that Mr. Cole has never yet missed an annual meeting, which...