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...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...
While State's lawyers stewed, one indignant yelp arose from an area where the shoe might pinch. In wrathful comment on a New York Times story which raised the question of Argentina's "totalitarian" President Perón, Buenos Aires' die-hard Peronista daily La Epoca bellowed: "Such newspapers should not have the right to print, even on toilet paper, such libelous information [against] . . . a nation which is leading the world in the art of liberating people from Communist infection...
This week every U.S. wage-earner took a cut in pay. Withholding rates went up from 15% to 18% under the new tax law, which will siphon off an added $2.7 billion from personal incomes in the next year. Corporations also will feel the pinch. They will kick in an additional $1.5 billion to the Treasury under a tax increase that is retroactive to July...
...Drury was also a tough cop, handy with his fists and afraid of nobody. He habitually put the pinch on, or otherwise harassed, such hearties as Murray ("The Camel") Humphries, the late Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti, Louis ("Little New York") Campagna, Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca, Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, Big Al's biggest brother. Once he even tried to pin a murder rap on fish-eyed, elegantly tailored Charlie ("The Gentleman") Fischetti, one of Al Capone's top three heirs. And he hauled in Jack ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, Al Capone's business brains, whenever he felt displeased with...
...Last week, for the first time since his injury, Williams broke into a game as a pinch hitter. The Yankees walked...