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...Poke. The President had some happy explaining to do. In the eight months since he sent Congress a "tight, hardboiled" budget (TIME, Jan. 20), the whizzing U.S. economy had boosted anticipated Government revenues up about $4 billion to $41.7 billion. For paring expenditures, Politician Truman gave the Republican Congress scant credit. Congress, he said, had managed to trim his budget by $1.5 billion, but the actual saving was only $528 million (appropriations for Turkey and Greece, for flood control and other emergencies had cut it down). That was a direct political poke at Republican claims of having saved...
When he came to the surplus, it was the newsmen's turn to poke a hot political question at Harry Truman. What were the chances for tax reduction? The President would not say, right out, that there could be no tax cut. But he strongly implied that any effort to reduce taxes next year would get a heavy going over by him. Treasury Secretary John Snyder, patting his round, little private surplus, nodded approval as the President explained his tax policy: cut the debt by taxing heavily in prosperous times. Added Harry Truman: "The international situation has also made...
...including Pennsylvania, however. Said Republican Governor James (Big Jim) Duff as Dewey finished his western tour: "For the Republican Party to tie itself up to a single candidate for the presidency at this time . . . would be like selling the party a pig in a poke...
There was news aplenty for the sports fans. In San Francisco an enterprising rat fancier was busily training some 80 albino rats, their tails dyed distinguishing hues, to run races in a specially designed treadmill. "I just put 'em on the wheel and poke 'em," he said. "They get the idea pretty fast." In France, Britain's pigeon fanciers let loose some 4,000 prize birds in the France-to-England Grand National and Northeast Lancashire classics. Only 50% of the birds returned to England, but pigeon racers are philosophical about their hobby. What with the heat...
...easy to poke ridicule at Mr. White's book. His approach is by no means scholarly, and the informal, unscientific little polls on which he bases his conclusions as to the state of German opinion suffer by his own admission that, "It is particularly difficult for an American now to discover what Germans really think...