Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the magazine's greatest fault is its great dearth of material that might interest a general audience--its reports on NSA, SDA, SLID, and ADA lack appeal for few but members and friends of these alphabetical organizations. Only the lead article--by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.--which gives convincing arguments for the rejection of Communist Party support by any genuine liberal group, is worthy of careful reading. And this gives us little that Schlesinger has not presented elsewhere...
...actually studied the amounts required for specific purposes, is non-sense. It may be that economics are possible, but it will require a lot of looking to find them. 81.2 percent of the President's budget is allocated to national defense, the Marshall plan, veterans' benefits, tax refunds, and interest on the national debt. Cuts here are both politically dangerous and detrimental to the security of the country. Social Security and welfare, highways, mail, radio regulation, atomic energy, flood control, reclamation, and the operation of Congress and the Courts, constitute another 16.1 percent. Cuts can be made here but only...
Completion of the first rushes is the climax of four months of organization and expansion of the group. Since the movie-minded club's conception by President William L. Alden '50 last spring, it has swelled to over 50 active members while 40 others have expressed interest in joining...
Mostly, the investments were made years ago. Since the war new private capital has fought shy of Latin America. By putting up bars to payment of interest and principal, Latinos have done much to frighten new private U.S. capital away.† Last month Brazil reimposed a 5% tax on exported profits, and Argentina allows no dollars to leave unless matched by newly invested dollars. In every republic except Venezuela remittances are subject to costly exchange-control delays. In Socialist-run Venezuela, which currently offers the best Latin American climate for new private enterprise, U.S. oil companies plan to invest...
Other Elgin ministers were so impressed by Peirce's statement that they decided to adapt it for general distribution in pamphlet form. Promptly Elgin's undertakers proposed a meeting to talk it over. Such a meeting, explained a representative of the undertakers, "was in the interest of two 'fine professions,' both seeking to give the public what it wanted...