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...clampdown on meat prices was another move in Premier Robert Schuman's efforts to combat French inflation and revive French industry. First, he had tried a partial return to a free economy, with franc devaluation, open trading in gold and dollars, lifting of many price controls. But when, on Socialist insistence, Schuman had called in 5,000-franc notes, many Frenchmen (especially farmers) had lost confidence in their currency. Prices continued to shoot upward. In a month the cost of onions and potatoes went up 50%, mutton 20%, carrots...
...What's the Use?" Now Schuman was trying to stop price increases by a partial return to dirigisme (state control). One housewife last week voiced a typical complaint: "I'd rather pay five francs more a pound for my meat than pay taxes for the wages of these government snoopers. They won't stop prices rising, anyway-they will simply drive the meat off the market...
...coats have tied definite conditions to their request. Aware of the handicapping features of total support, the Band is asking only for a sum to cover its Cornell and Princeton trips, predicting that record sales and concert incomes will take care of home expenses. Asking for partial aid permits them to retain some semblance of extra-curricular freedom...
Washington politicos began to ask: "What is Harold up to?" They got a partial answer. Stories began to leak out of Washington of a midnight meeting between Stassen and Taft. Before Stassen had made up his mind to enter the Ohio primary, Taft had paid a call at Stassen's Hotel Statler suite. Taft had warned Stassen not to enter the primary, warned that it would wreck party unity and Stassen's own political future. Stassen's answer was equally blunt: if he was going to get anywhere he had to show that he could confront...
...except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our little partial local interests ; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages...