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...capita cut in federal income taxes, the U.S. Senate's Finance Committee last week heard a clear contrast between the economic philosophy of the Eisenhower Administration and that of the Fair Deal Democrats. Speaking for the Administration was Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, lawyer and industrialist. For the Fair Deal Democrats the spokesman was Leon Keyserling, lawyer, economist and onetime bureaucrat, who was chairman of President Harry Truman's Council of Economic Advisers...
...hands in the state legislature were horrified. "Dictator," they cried. Said Senate Majority Leader John Van Ness, a Jenner man: "What the governor had in mind was a plan that appealed primarily to the executive or the industrialist. He had a government graph here which would have been excellent for a big corporation. Now, you know, you don't change state government overnight to fit a graph." Craig's answer...
Besides the antagonisms of farmer v. townsman, big business v. small business, worker v. industrialist. France suffers from an older, more stubborn and more pervasive division-the division between clerical and anticlerical. It is a division which makes two parties where there could have been one, which splits the non-Communist left into anticlerical Socialists and pro-Catholic M.R.P., the non-Gaullist right into secularist Radical Socialists and religionist Independents...
Moment of Truth. The dramatic moment came when ex-Premier René Mayer, an influential industrialist (identified with the Rothschild interests) and a member of Mendès' own Radical Socialist Party, took the rostrum. Mayer, whose constituency is Constantine in Algeria, was against Mendès' attempts to negotiate a North African settlement with the nationalist rebels. He was plainly on the side of the French settlers, and brushed aside talk of cruelty on the part of the French forces. "Repression always has a cruel aspect," he said coolly. "But this time it has been just...
Late last year a liveried chauffeur began poking around the French Riviera, seeking a country mansion to suit the tastes of his employer, an anonymous Paris industrialist. Through a Paris real estate office, he finally negotiated the purchase of a stately, green-shuttered pink villa. Price for the estate, which sprawls near the Aga Khan's Cannes hideaway: $90,000. The tipoff that the new owner was no ordinary industrialist came last November, when the locals learned that he had ordered a new lodge built on the grounds especially to house his platoon of bodyguards. Last week the mysterious...