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More Taxes. The $5 billion tax boost bill now in Congress would be only a first installment. "Congress should enact further tax legislation as soon as possible . . . This should include a just and fair excess-profits...
...Innocent & Misguided. "Nevertheless," he said, "there are some people who wish us to enact laws which would seriously damage the right of free speech and which could be used not only against subversive groups but against other groups engaged in political or other activities which were not generally popular." The President was obviously talking about the Mundt-Ferguson bill, which Republicans in Congress were vigorously sponsoring...
Last week President Truman signed a bill removing even this last limitation on Puerto Rican autonomy: auditor and judges will henceforth be elected by Puerto Ricans. The new bill also authorized Puerto Rico to enact its own constitution. In a referendum, Puerto Ricans will be asked whether they want to accept this proposal; if they vote yes, they will then elect a constitutional assembly. Puerto Rico will remain a U.S. territory; in fact, it could not survive without the protection of U.S. tariffs and U.S. subsidies...
Since colonial times the General Court's attempts to enact legislation which would interfere with Harvard affairs have been sporadic at best. But when the legislature has tried to mold to its own standards Harvard's brand of "piety, morality, and learning," University officers have usually protested vehemently. Mostly they succeeded in staving off restrictive action on the part of the legislators...
Another way was supplied by Nature. The dust bowl of 1934-35 and the great drought of 1936 cut farm surpluses. But a fresh wave of poverty swept families westward from their deadlands to enact the saga of the Okies and tread the Grapes of Wrath...