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...among the economic and political variables, there is one constant: Election Day falls on November 2. The popularity of a tax cut makes the issue a ripe plum for the politicians, who are taking every opportunity to capitalize on it. Political maneuvering in Congress is to be expected during an election year, but it is highly dangerous to mix politics with the complex problems of national finance. Any tax cut in the near future must be one not made with a view to its vote-getting consequences, and preferably one that would actively encourage savings. A bill that...
Twenty-four needy Cambridge families ate turkey and plum pudding dinners yesterday after Phillips Brooks House again distributed its annual Thanksgiving food packages...
...contracts are no longer available. Today Cambridge shovels its own snow instead of contracting for a fleet of $5.00-an-hour trucks and 400 men at a net cost of more than $75,000 per snow storm. Those men eager to keep Cambridge from becoming a politician's plum are endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association. The C.C.A. has also endorsed Richard Morris '44, Roland Shaine '38, Bradley Dewey '08 LL.D. '45 hon., Thomas H. D. Mahoney Ph.D., and Mrs. Elizabeth M. Minot for the Cambridge School Board. Drafted for nomination, these candidates consider education and not politics the realm...
...Poet Robert Lowell, 30, wartime conscientious objector, 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinner, went a Government plum - a year's pleasant work (at $5,700) as adviser on poetry for the Library of Congress (where his predecessor was 1944 Pulitzer Poet Karl Shapiro...
...presidency of the $66,800,000 American President Lines, Ltd., which is Government-owned but privately operated, has always been a political plum. When onetime Assistant Secretary of State Henry F. Grady resigned as president last April (to become the first U.S. Ambassador to India), he hoped for a break with tradition. He announced that he expected to be succeeded by Executive Vice President E. Russell Lutz, no politician. He was wrong. Last week, to fill the $25,000-a-year vacancy, the company chose lean-faced, natty George L. Killion, 46, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee...