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...Incidentally, Texans don't agree with your contention that Oveta's appointment was a ... plum for the Texas people. Mrs. Hobby's appointment is a plum for Mrs. Hobby...
...field is a choice plum for people in any one of the ROTC programs since the third and fourth year courses in either Military, Naval or Air Science may be offered toward fulfillment of the concentration requirements...
Walks in the Kremlin. The biggest plum of all went to Molotov. In 1930, at the age of 40, he became Premier. His acceptance speech: "I received my schooling under the direct guidance of ... Comrade Stalin. I am proud of this. Until today, I had to work mainly as a party worker. I declare to you, comrades, that I am going to work in the government also as a party worker, as the agent of the party's will...
...another plum to Russia's citizens, the Kremlin announced a general price reduction on 125 items of consumer goods. The cuts range from 5% on wines and woolens to 50% on fruits and vegetables; theoretically, they will lower the sky-high Soviet cost of living by 8%. But previous price cuts have been largely offset by increases in taxes and by taxpayers' "loans" to the government. The latest markdowns leave the average Russian worker laboring more than a week for a cheap pair of shoes, 18 weeks for a top-quality suit-when he can find them...
With this prospective revenue drain, the plum looked rather biliously green to the Administration. Faced with a growing national debt that was already scraping the 275 million dollar limit, and Truman's parting prediction of a ten billion dollar deficit, Eisenhower made an abrupt about face. "A reduction in taxes," he said in his State of the Union message, "should come only as we can succeed in bringing the budget under control...