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...provide a market for American exports unless equal, competitive entry of foreign processed goods is permitted. Your ultra-high tariff has, up to now, blocked this mutual equation . . . Up to the beginning of World War II, this gap was plugged principally by the shipments of gold to Fort Knox, in place of goods. Since the end of the war, the dollar shortage abroad was offset by temporary devices, such as Marshall aid, at the expense of the much overburdened American taxpayer, to whom much credit is due. Absurdity can go no further, because incoming goods into the U.S. could have...
...Mary Poppins in the Park, the century's most famous nurse-governess returns to the scene. The accent is on the word "governess," for the basic fact about Mary Poppins is that she is a Tower of Strength, a Rock of Gibraltar, a Fort Knox whose secret bullion rules the world. Employers who ask her for references are given one of the outraged sniffs that are as much a Poppins characteristic as her long, turned up nose, her carpetbag (which is always empty and yet, somehow, always contains her starched aprons and a camp bed), and the parrot-headed...
...What, Old Top?" The amazing thing is that this "formidable old crustacean," as John Gunther dubbed him, survived the war in Washington. King started by disliking General George Marshall, his opposite number in the Army, though he later found much to admire in him. He bucked Secretary Frank Knox. He distrusted and openly fought Secretary Forrestal. He was proud to find himself a minority of one at an allied conference-"King contra mundum...
...trouble seemed to be television's unblinking eye. Explained a spokesman, Sir Robert Knox: "Those moments of coronation will demand all the Queen's concentration. Under direct television she would be acutely conscious of every movement. She might feel the need to touch her face or mop her brow and would know that every tiny gesture . . . was being relayed everywhere." Even worse: "One could expect that this very sacred ceremony would be watched by people in a bar, for instance...
...experience with foreign and military affairs, Stevenson has been secretary to the Navy's Knox, a highly effective and respected member of the UN's American delegation, and the leader of several missions to Europe during and after the war. Republicans, notably Senator Vandenberg, and Democrats alike have praised his service in the State Department...