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More Leverage. To this end, the President recently issued two executive orders dealing with what the civil service calls Schedule A employees: men who hold Government jobs of a confidential or policymaking nature.* Schedule A was originally established to give Government executives a freer hand in hiring and firing top assistants, and these essentially political employees did not possess the job security enjoyed by regular civil servants. In 1947, Harry Truman signed an order giving most of them the equivalent of civil-service protection. In April, Eisenhower partially undid Truman's work by ordering that top bureaucratic policymakers (about...
...should be amended thus: tj Private companies should be permitted to own the fissionable materials needed to run their own reactors. CJ Patents on nuclear discoveries made by companies with their own money should go to the private companies. CJ Security restrictions should be relaxed to enable a freer flow of information between corporations to cut down duplications and wasted effort...
...federal law which compels the Government to buy U.S. goods in preference to competitive foreign goods. There is a loophole in the law: foreign purchases may be made if they are consistent with "the public interest." The Administration, out to prove its good faith in its policy of freer trade, slipped twice through the loophole. Items...
...these reasons, support for freer foreign trade has snowballed. Such pioneer free traders as the Committee for Economic Development and the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce have been joined by the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Detroit Board of Commerce, the New England Council, the New York Board of Trade, New Orleans International House, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and by groups as diverse as the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, the National Grange, League of Women Voters, and religious publications ranging from the Catholic Commonweal to the Methodist Christian Advocate...
Probably no enemy in history of warfare has been freer to make its own choice than the Communists in Korea...