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...economic policies freely concedes that he is a "very great American." A fellow Cabinet officer whose department has felt the paining pinch of Anderson's insistence on balanced budgets calls him "one of the very ablest men in public life during the past 20 years." Adds another Cabinet member: "In this Washington scramble, the most refined form of cannibalism ever devised, it's just about impossible to find anybody who has anything nasty to say about Bob Anderson." Says Economist Gabriel Hauge, White House economic adviser from 1953 until last year: "Intellect, character, dedication-these are words that...
...programs. He also has a warm friendship with Speaker Rayburn's top fiscal adviser, Arkansas' Wilbur Mills, able chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee. These leadership contacts, plus his unflagging attention to every staffer and stenographer, give Anderson more support in Congress than a member of a Republican Cabinet has any right to expect from a Democratic majority...
...Anderson's goal is to make aid to underdeveloped countries a cooperative free-world undertaking. At the World Bank-IMF meeting in New Delhi in October 1958, Anderson sponsored a proposal to increase World Bank funds by doubling the member nations' commitments to guarantee World Bank bonds. At the same meeting, Anderson unwrapped a U.S. plan to set up an International Development Association (with the U.S. contributing one-third of the capital) to make loans that, unlike World Bank loans, would be repayable in the borrowing country's own currency, no matter how soft. At the World...
...against U.S. goods has already brought dramatic results. At the late September meeting of the World Bank-IMF, Sweden's Per Jacobsson, managing director of IMF, agreed with Anderson that the "new situation' called for a "fresh examination" of international economic policies. The IMF executive board urged member nations with adequate gold and dollar reserves to end discrimination against U.S. goods "with all feasible speed." A few days later, the meeting of the 37-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Tokyo echoed the same theme. Fortnight ago. Britain, France and Japan all set about complying with...
...relieve these places somewhat and to stimulate an "intellectual atmosphere" at Radcliffe, the six-member Faculty Committee has urged that some tutors meet their students at offices in the 'Cliffe Quadrangle. Donald R. Brown, Head Resident of Holmes Hall, and David M. Bevington, Head Resident of Moors Hall, both now give tutorial at Radcliffe, but ideally even more tutorial should be given there, Dean Elliott said...