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...Wilson had figured out some ways of placating labor. In his radio address (see above), Wilson hinted at new attempts to hold down food prices, promised to crack down on profiteers, pointedly noted that the views of farm ers and workers "must be represented in meeting national problems." More impor tant, he said: "Wage policies, too, are being modified again ..." But were they being modified enough to satisfy labor? Just to suggest the peril of not conceding labor enough, James B. Carey promptly threatened a strike of his International Union of Electrical Work ers at Charlie Wilson...
...More Italians have taken to reading American publications primarily because they consider the American viewpoint on world events more impor' tant now than ever before. A member of the Italian Foreign Office explained it this...
...valuable baggage of anecdote, legend, old documents, and excerpts from fron tier diaries. A generous sprinkling of old prints and photographs helps to make This Reckless Breed of Men an impor tant discovery for any armchair explorer of western Americana...
...could be inferred from the open and above-board teaching of a course on the principles and implications of Communism in an American college or university, where everything is open to the scrutiny of parents and trustees and anyone who may be interested . . . That is why it is so impor tant for you to weigh with scrupulous care the testimony concerning secret schools, false names, devious ways, general falsification and so on, all alleged to be in the setting of a huge and well-disciplined organization, spreading to practically every state of the union and all the principal cities...
Come December. Excess-profits taxes, earlier reduced from 1 00% to 65%, would! end entirely by December. More impor tant, the $17 billion total expenditure was 31% less than last year's, and 91% of it would be paid from revenue. The next budget might be even better, for more than 40% of this one goes to defense supplies, demobilization gratuities, war contract terminations and other non-recurring expenses...