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...plus my G.I. policy, which I've never been able to convert and which will run out in two years ... I own a 1950 Oldsmobile car. We have our furniture. We have no stocks and bonds of any type. We have no interest of any kind, direct or indirect in any business. I owe $4,500 to the Riggs Bank in Washington ... I owe $3,500 to my parents . . . and then I have a $500 loan ... on my life insurance...
...into his palm. His conversation was not for quotation, but the papers soon blossomed out with stories that Ike would not run on the same ticket with Nixon unless Nixon came out of his trouble "clean as a hound's tooth."* The tabloid New York Mirror reflected the indirect statements in a more direct headline: EXPLAIN OR QUIT, IKE TO NIXON...
...Pastor Spanuth has ways to explain away such minor difficulties. Plato, he says, was not infallible. After all, he got his information in a very indirect manner through Egyptian priests, never noted for scientific precision...
...powers to cushion a national economic shock. He promoted federal works projects and expanded the federal employment service. Calling in business leaders, he got their promise that capital expenditures would go on and that wages would not be cut. But they often were. Nevertheless, says Hoover, such "indirect relief" measures sufficed to provide a "comparatively mild . . . readjustment," and he assured the country that "we have passed the worst." (Says Hoover: "I did not say 'Prosperity is just around the corner...
...Mohammed Naguib has done a good job: changed the laws to encourage foreign capital; refused to reconvene the Parliament, which the corrupt Wafd Party dominates; freed the press, abolished censorship, the secret police and titles of nobility. He has vowed to limit the size of landholdings and to attack "indirect taxes whose burdens fall on the poor...