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Before I give you this week's winners, does anybody have a stamp they could lend...
Pepper was a strong supporter of Roosevelt's progressive legislative programs. He pushed for the creation of lend-lease and became an early advocate of American preparedness-through compulsory military service-against Germany. Pepper's liberal domestic record and his sympathy for the war-battered Russians made him the target of right-wingers in 1950. In a McCarthy era Senate campaign against his former protege, George Smathers, he was branded "Red" Pepper and a "spellbinding pinko...
...something we must learn to accept, as some of us must learn to accept such happier but equally haphazard gifts-a brief romance, a sweet spring day. The comparison here must be to Love Story, in which mortality was dragged onstage-like Lord Olivier making a cameo appearance-to lend spurious dignity to an otherwise tacky enterprise...
...first weeks of this semester don't exactly lend support to the new-mood-on-campus theories. True, most students here are not raising questions about such overarching issues as investments in South Africa, but there does seem to be a glimmering of activism...
...Economists, suggests a third reason: the Fed sets targets for both money-supply growth and interest rates, and it has had great difficulty in choosing goals that are consistent with each other. For example, it may try to keep the "Fed funds" rate -the rate on reserves that banks lend to each other-at around 6%. But it may then find that in order to prevent the rate from rising above that, it has to pump reserves into the banking system, and that increases the money supply more than it intended...