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...conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce called for an immediate tax cut, even if it meant a budget deficit in the coming year-which it certainly would. Said Chamber President H. Ladd Plumley: "It's worth the cost." Less surprisingly, the Chamber wanted the cuts concentrated on corporations and upper-bracket individuals, because it believes that encouraging investment in plant and equipment is more important to economic growth right now than spurring consumer spending. Estimated cost of the Chamber cut: $7 billion to $10 billion...
...Although Byrd is considered old shoe by the New Frontier, he has for almost 30 years kept a discerning eye on the Government's fiscal policies-and knows a bit about such matters. His remarks reflect a general edginess about the Administration's fiscal policies. H. Ladd Plumley, new president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, last week expressed the feeling that the Kennedy Administration was really trying to get along with business...
...Atlanta packing-plant employees, Norman Plumley, 20, a wienie worker, and Doris Mae Wilson, 22, an egg packer, met while walking out on strike. Love bloomed; eleven days later, while a juke box played I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat For Me, they were married on the picket line by a blind preacher...
Grey-haired old Charles Plumley, Vermont's lone Congressman, rose up in the House one day last week to make an announcement. Because of "the alleged scarcity of paper pulp," said Congressman Plumley, he was sending out no Christmas cards this year. And he then & there wished everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. He was cheered to the rafters...
...Pessimists. When asking for money the admirals are almost invariably doleful about the war's progress. Plumley's observation that half his mail protested the spending of so much money for what Army and Navy men sometimes call this "soon-to-be-ended war," prompted Vice Admiral Ben Moreell, burly, able chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, to answer soberly: "I do not believe you will find any responsible military man who will agree with the thesis that...