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...determine whether there is probable cause to hold an accused person pending grand-jury action. Most of them can try petty cases and mete out sentences up to six months. Yet 30% of the commissioners are not lawyers; all are paid only by fees (annual maximum: $10,500) that impoverish the able, particularly among fulltime commissioners, and tempt the greedy to issue shaky warrants. The system is now under fire in Congress...
Hubert quoted an old-and since modified-Goldwater statement calling for "prompt and final termination of the farm-subsidy programs." This, he told the farmers in his best approximation of cathedral tones, "is the death sentence for agriculture. It would impoverish farm people, wipe out billions in rural land values, ruin business on rural America's main streets, and solve absolutely nothing." And how would Hubert solve things? "You had better make sure that Lyndon Johnson remains as President...
...further proliferation of things called Kennedy is inevitable. One hopes, however, that those intent on establishing memorials will not impoverish the language whose luxuriance Kennedy loved, but will be inspired to new undertakings...
Obviously, the Administration would have ditched such a policy long ago if it supposed there was nothing to gain by it. Merely upsetting Castro at the cost of helping to impoverish the Cuban people is a sour sort of accomplishment. What the State Department is presumably trying to do is to make of Cuba a laboratory model to show Latin America that a socialist economy cannot decently survive. The trouble is that everybody knows that the U.S. has so restricted the possibility of development on the island--in fact has so narrowly defined the terms of the experiment--that...
...soil-bank" proposal looked like a political convincer. It was not a new plan; the New Deal put a similar scheme into effect from 1936 to " 1943. But coming from Benson, it was evidence that the Secretary's inflexible opposition to inflexible price supports was no satanic scheme to impoverish U.S. farmers...