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Inside & Out. When he sat down, the Socialists went after him hot & heavy, anxious to fix his party with the onus of a peace treaty they could fight at the polls 17 months from now. Adenauer's own Centrist coalition fought him too. In the end, they tacked on to his rearmament resolution four sticky conditions...
...Republican Senator who denounced Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson for working on the RFC in an effort to get an $18.5 million loan for Carthage Hydrocol Inc., of which Gabrielson is president and counsel. Welcome as the Gabrielson issue was to the Democrats, it scarcely relieved them of the onus of the Administration scandals...
...base their compromise on the unpredictable reality of a cold war, which might hot up at any moment, or simmer for ten years. They argue first that they do not want to disrupt the civilian economy (the military used to state its needs bluntly, leave to somebody else the onus of ruling that the nation couldn't afford it). George Marshall likes to say that the U.S. cannot mobilize too fast, or it will be "all dressed up with no place to go." Another pet Pentagon phrase capsules a planner's fear: that once production is really turned...
When aging Harry F. Sinclair stepped out of the presidency of the Sinclair Oil Corp. in early 1949, his company was held in small esteem on Wall Street. Over it still hovered some of the onus of Harry Sinclair's jailing for contempt in the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the '20s. And in its later years the company seemed to have developed hardening of the corporate arteries. It lagged behind in expanding its production and oil reserves...
...does, for Tories quite openly lack Churchill's enthusiasm for an election soon. Realistically, they recognize that they have few alternative solutions to the problems of meat and coal and no radically different foreign policy to propose. What is more, they are in no hurry to bear the onus which the Socialists must now assume for the higher taxes and dislocations of rearmament. Many would just as soon wait for the plum to fall without having to shake the tree...