Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approval of Chile's $25 million came so rapidly that details-including formal signing of the loan agreement-have yet to be ironed out. The Export-Import Bank will probably put up $15 million; the rest will most likely come from Mutual Security Agency coffers. Even the use to which the money will be put is not certain, but basically the loan's function will be to provide a dollar prop for Chile's sagging peso, hard hit by a world slump in copper prices. Last week the peso was so shaky (off from...
...wife, for example, bet each other, as part of the dinner table conversation at a party, that the wife cannot seduce the man on his right in fifteen minutes (the same man, incidentally, whom the Count recently met in his--the Count's--nightshirt at the house of their mutual mistress); they bet; the woman later turns out to have won--and in eight minutes, not fifteen. Good for Boston. Cultural relativism. Moral perspectives. Jolly good...
...Montgomery Advertiser, tracing ties between the K.K.K. and Patterson campaigners, turned up a form letter which was a signal to Klansmen to back him for Governor. On his official Attorney General stationery, Candidate Patterson wrote to the K.K.K. hate-sheet mailing list quoting "A mutual friend, Mr. R. N. (Bob) Shelton." To anybody on the list, that was enough, for, as every Kluxer knows, Tuscaloosa Rubberworker Shelton is the Grand Dragon...
...speak to some 200 guests at a Republican National Committee dinner last week. Firmly and flatly, he placed the price of his endorsement of 1958 Republican congressional candidates at support for the three Administration programs he deemed "imperative" in meeting the challenge of Communism. The three: defense reorganization, mutual security and reciprocal trade...
Speaking before the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks in Boston last week, Reierson noted that "many maladjustments have entered the economy in recent years, and their correction may be neither painless nor swift." Troublesome problems are the continuing rise in wage rates in the face of unemployment, and the rigid price structure that keeps prices high in the face of surpluses...