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Putting down his pruning shears, Budget Director Frederick Lawton announced happily that he had cut $580 million in non-defense items off the $36 billion omnibus appropriations act for fiscal 1951. The cut was $30 million more than had been ordered by Congress, which had timorously refused to make its own economies. Director Lawton left himself a big loophole, however. The extra $30 million would be put in reserve, to be doled out to the agencies if they felt a pinch later...
...Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, stated: "I don't think there is any doubt about it that the perfectly obnoxious, terrible things that are in the bill are a combination of the worst features of all the anti-Communist bills" proposed to the Congress before being combined into the omnibus Communist control bill...
Elliott objected strongly to those portions of the omnibus bill which were originally contained in the McCarran bull: "It reiterates and strengthens those barriers to immigration of anyone who has ever been a Communist, and in so doing, keeps out of the country some of those who are strongly anti-Communist and our greatest friends in this matter...
...testimony against the Mundt-Nixon portions of the omnibus, bill, Chafee attacked the all-inclusive Section 4, which reads: "It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to combine, conspire, or agree with any other person to perform any act which would substantially contribute to the establishment within the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship . . . under the domination or control of any foreign government...
...week, eleven years after Ford's death, many U.S. readers will be getting their first chance at four of his long-forgotten, time-tarnished medals, the novel series Some Do Not. . ., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up-, The Last Post, all wrapped up in a single omnibus entitled Parade's End. Readers will also have a chance of being in on the making of a popular literary reputation, for Ford's publisher has spared no pains to provide his forgotten man with a general's escort of trumpeters: "the great English novelist...