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Cutback. What Thompson's move 'did mean was that he had finally been able to win what Texas independents want-promise of a cut in crude imports (now some 820,000 bbl. daily), giving Texas a bigger share of the domestic market. That ambition had been implicit in Thompson's Washington testimony. The way to supply Europe was not to increase production, he said, but to make major refiners cut back imports of Venezuelan crude, ship it direct to Europe...
...declared Attorney Victor Berrange. "will seek to show that these prosecutions . . . are for the purpose of testing the political breeze to determine how far the originators [of the trial] can go in their attempts to stifle free speech, criticism of government policies and all that the accused believe is implicit in their definition of the often misused word 'democracy.' ... A battle of ideas has indeed been started in our country...
...feel that he continues to react to political situations as the academician that he is. "He seems to act with the sense of knowing best," one commentator remarked, "--a kind of vocation to set an incompetant world to rights." This drive to set the world at rights is perhaps implicit in his Socialist creed, but Gaitskell's interpretation of party cant bears the imprint of a man looking for an up-to-date, intellectually solid synthesis. his own words, defining what he sees as the evils of capitalism, illuminate the original approach of Hugh Gaitskell to socialism. "The three evils...
...friends in a hundred cities, ten cups of coffee and loud talk until three in the morning. Now my world was reduced to my home, my farm, my hills. I lived more closely with my wife, my daughter, my animal friends. I thought more deeply of my God." And implicit in the book is the strongly held feeling that the close brush with death was well worth the cost...
...thus risking the eggheads' ire, Chairman Butler served implicit notice that they, like the Digest, are an expendable political luxury...