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...Majority Leader John W. McCormack of Massachusetts and Minnesota's Walter H. Judd. In Boston, Roman Catholic Richard Cardinal Gushing asked people ''to pray in the street, pray any place," during the days that Khrushchev would be in the U.S.*And in Los Angeles, despite a plea by Vice President Nixon that the Soviet leader get a courteous welcome, the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars urged its members to boycott all events connected with Khrushchev's tour...
...help the Government out of its troubles. Congress last week took a tiny step. While it has turned down the President's plea for authority to raise the 4¼% ceiling on long-term bonds, the House approved a bill to permit the President to raise interest rates on E and H savings bonds to 3¼ from the current 3.26%. Cash-ins of E and H bonds during the first eight months exceeded sales by $759 million. The House move, which is expected to win Senate approval, was immediately labeled "inadequate" by Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. He emphasized...
There is plenty of reason for a presidential plea to do something about wheat. The present wheat-support program (75% of parity, with a 55 million-acre limit on planting) is building toward a record 1.5 billion bushel surplus next year (cost: $3.5 billion). Benson's solution, which Congress ignored this year in passing its own bill, which President Eisenhower vetoed, would do away with acreage controls and include price supports that slide a little each year toward true market levels...
Even De Gaulle's new friends, the Germans, were upset at what they considered France's upstage attitude. An influential group of Christian Democrats in Bonn wired Konrad Adenauer-vacationing in northern Italy-a plea to intervene in Paris. Warned the influential Die Welt: "Let us hope that De Gaulle's policies will never force us to choose between France and the U.S., for in that case we would have to say goodbye to France. We would say so with a bleeding heart. But goodbye it would...
Monkey Business. The man who ended Mather's success story last week was Democrat John E. Powers, president of the state senate and front runner in Boston's mayoralty campaign. Powers was not impressed by Mather's plea that the university is already losing able teachers; he was more concerned with holding down Boston's tax rate and sabotaging his political rival, Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, who backed President Mather...