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Official purpose of the display was to promote an international memorial to Christopher Columbus. In the Dominican Republic, people seldom speak of Trujillo by name. When they discuss their savior, they find it safer to refer to the local equivalent of "Mr. Jones" (as do Benito Mussolini's subjects). But when Senator Green & companions got home last week, it became clear that Trujillo had also done himself a good turn. Mr. Green regaled his acquaintances with accounts of the seven hospitals, the sanitation, the orderly well-being apparent in Ciudad Trujillo. A correspondent of the Washington News who accompanied...
...accompanied your article (TIME, Feb. 27), I was shocked to note the district bounded by Larkin, Mason, Turk and Ellis Streets described as the "toughest part of town," and I am roused to protest. . . . The word "tough" conjures gangsters and gunmen-a district where decent citizens would hesitate to find themselves after dark and where unescorted women would be unsafe...
...Texas would like to see a Texan in the White House and so would I. . . . Get to know Garner some time when you get a chance to leave Seattle. You'll find him to be very much the same kind of a humanitarian thinker that the President...
...Bone apparently failed to take into account that many States do not allow taxpayers to deduct Federal taxes in figuring their State income tax. Bone, Nye & Co. proposed such wartime tax rates that many top-bracket taxpayers would find their total taxes all but swallowing their net income (but not exceeding it, as newspapers reported last week). In New York, for example (which has a State tax graduated up to 7% plus a 1% emergency tax), a $500,000-a-year man in a war year would have to pay Federal and State income taxes totaling...
...tell, but the joker is that Hungary would be backed by the Third Reich. The possibility loomed last week for a few short hours that Soviet Russia might come to Rumania's aid, but the last thing King Carol wants is Soviet soldiers on his soil. He might find it difficult to get them out afterward...