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Good Motives. At week's end, Jim Hagerty made a backhanded apology to newsmen for "the disadvantages that were placed upon the news-gathering agencies that were observing the [H-bomb] release date. I and other members of the Gov ernment will try to work out, with your help, a system where the chances of this happening again will be eliminated...
...time when the Star - like every U.S. paper - was raising its daily price to meet such increased costs as a near tripling in the price of news print, 185% increase in its labor bill and a 265% tax hike. Roberts bitterly recalled two other cases in which the Gov ernment and the Star were involved. During the late 1930s, the Star finally began to slam away at the corrupt Pendergast machine, which had given Truman his start in politics. The FBI moved in, and 259 politicos were found guilty of vote fraud and ballot-box stuffing. In 1946, the Star...
...ernment agents. "Because of this, nothing happened," he added...
Lancashire is a sensitive barometer to the world's economic storms. Textile retailers have not yet unloaded the huge stocks they built up when the Korean war began. And British Commonwealth countries, seeking solvency, have slashed all imports, including Lancashire cloth. To relieve unemployment, the British gov ernment did what little it could. Heavier orders for military uniforms and blankets would be placed in Lancashire mills. Imports of foreign grey (i.e., unfinished) cloth would be banned forthwith. Non-textile firms would be asked to settle in Lancashire so that whole families and cities would not slump together when...
...pursue, the tactics of exploiting differences among the non-Communist nations. In one area, they have been nota bly unsuccessful ; Anglo-American unity, the rock on which the free world's alliance must stand, is not vulnerable to such tactics. Nevertheless, during the period of the Labor gov ernment, some serious cleavages did show themselves in dealings between Britain and the U.S. The important overall achievement of Winston Churchill's mission to Washington was to arrest and reverse the process of rift...