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...Lick & Promise. To a nation which had demanded a change in policy he offered, scarcely any policy at all. Instead of specific remedies for the nation's problems, he produced mainly a vaguely worded collection of generalities which implicitly invited Congress to do as it pleased...
Some major matters he avoided completely. There was no mention of portal-to-portal pay, of income-tax reductions, of such an old troublemaker as FEPC. Foreign policy and foreign trade he dismissed with a lick & a promise-and an aside on "the difficulty of reaching agreement with the Soviet Union on the terms of [peace] settlement." One of his few specific requests was for the continuation of war excise tax rates-which he himself had just lifted by abruptly announcing the termination of hostilities (see below...
...November, after a conference of Scripps-Howard editors in French Lick, Ind., the killing of Stokes columns spread. When the tabloid Washington Daily News, in the town he had made his beat, dropped three of his columns in a week, Tom Stokes's Southern blood boiled...
...made inquiries," said Stokes, "and I learned they had discussed me at this French Lick meeting at considerable length. It seems the point was that I was interfering with editorial policy; one guy made some sort of crack like why should they pay out money for that? Well, I don't want their money. . . . My decision is final, and I want out." He could get along without the money he got from the twelve Scripps-Howard papers which took his column: 97 other U.S. papers print his stuff...
...plagued by odd-cent price rises (e.g., candy bars have gone up to 6?), which have forced operators to either 1) continue selling for a nickel and absorb the rise themselves or 2) charge a dime and pack 4? change in with each bar. But the industry hopes to lick this problem with a machine that will make change for any coin...