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This year the HYRC's unique method of stuffing the membership ledger instead of the ballot box has assumed quite considerable proportions. All told, over two hundred and forty members have been rushed into the breaches, held open respectively by Hodel and ex-president Thomson, and by the disgruntled editor of the Times-Republican, Bill Smith...
...other side of the ledger, Wilson's adverse comment on the loyalty and capability of the National Guard is not entirely borne out by the facts. Naturally, everyone who joins the National Guard joins because he believes it is the easiest way to meet his military obligation. No one wants to give up six weeks of his year unless he is protected from the longer conventional arm of Uncle Sam. Mr. Wilson stretches words, with some justification, and calls this "draft-dodging...
...good news side of the ledger, Humphrey and Brundage predicted a surplus at the close of business next June 30 of $1.5 billion to $1.7 billion (estimate last January: a cautious $435 million). How about a tax cut? Said Humphrey dourly: Not a chance...
...protection from further Egyptian commando raids, etc. The State Department, determined that Israel not be rewarded for her attack on Egypt, told the Israeli Foreign Ministry in effect: first things first, i.e., no U.S. commitments until Israel withdraws behind the 1949 armistice lines. On the other side of the ledger, the U.S. Treasury gave no sign of heeding fervent Egyptian requests that it release the $40 million in Egyptian assets frozen by Washington after Egypt seized the canal...
...Providence, where he addressed a crowd of 5,000 from the steps of City Hall in the warm noon sun, he defined this difference. "When the Republican leaders think of economic problems," he said, "they see a ledger and a cashbook. When Democrats think of economic problems, they see men, women and children...