Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrest Harry Schweitzer? Let's make him Secretary of the Treasury. He could balance the budget...
...Commissioner Kennedy and Mayor Wagner would instruct their "finest" to pay a little "finer" attention to teamsters' traffic violations, I am sure this grandiose plan would fade very quickly. New York police have been coddling teamsters long enough by closing too many an eye in violation cases. Just let them get the same measure of tickets the average private New York driver is presented with - often unreasonably...
...after his lionlike complaints, the President offered lamblike recommendations. He urged Congress to abandon the parity formula-based on farm prices and farm costs in 1910-14, good years for U.S. farmers-and let Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson set price supports between 75% and 90% of the average market price in the preceding three years. As an alternative, if Congress could not bring itself to discard the parity idea, Ike suggested that Benson get authority to set support prices as low as 60% of parity...
...Most Humble. If anything goes wrong, the engineers at Bhilai are in touch with the Kremlin by special radio within the hour. The Communists have guaranteed all the equipment they have sent, and they have trained 370 Indians in Russian mills. Soviet experts are under strict orders to let trainees handle as much machinery and press as many buttons as they wish. This does wonders for the confidence of young engineers, who say that in German factories they are treated like sightseers...
According to Silverman, Truman is still working on arrangements for a stay at the University and will let the two organizations know if such plans materialize. It is fairly definite, however, that Truman will not make the trip until late in the term, if at all, Leary said...