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...weeks and 1,250,000 words of debate, the tidelands bill to grant seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries, sent it back to the House. ¶ Passed, over strong objections by Majority Leader Robert A. Taft, a bill authorizing the Export-Import Bank to write insurance against war damage and seizure on cotton and other American products shipped to friendly countries, sent it to the House. Taft called it "a very unfortunate extension of government in business . . . out of line with everything which the Republican Party has said it was going...
...businessmen, has supported extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. It recognizes that the United States is no longer a junior nation with fledgling industries; it is a creditor nation with responsibility to all the people here and abroad. Rather than setting higher tariffs and new import quotas and pumping more aid into Europe, Congress should give Eisenhower's proposed Study Commission a chance to formulate a sensible tariff policy. It should extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreements, following the International Business Machine slogan "THINK," rather than racing into costly, isolationist barriers to trade...
...Sent Congress a reorganization plan for the Export-Import Bank, to abolish a cumbersome board of directors, concentrate management in a single director...
...Boylston street, this unlabored decor has captured a rare kind of leisure for Henry IV. "Even the Americans," Genevieve claims, "seem to cat slower and really enjoy themselves here at night. And I discovered that Americans like fancy things after all; snails are the most popular dish. I import them from France, but the sauce, the most important part, is made right here...
...Genevieve's ability to draw her world of French and Italian friends around her in her restaurant. Speaking French or Spanish almost all day at the restaurant, she says her English has even deteriorated since she came to this country. On her own, she mastered Italian and plans to import an Italian expresso coffee machine as well as bull fight, flags to give the restaurant a "Latin" feeling...