Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hole in the head. In the Democratic primaries, Lyndon Johnson squeaked by former Governor Coke Stevenson. Stevenson promptly yelled "fraud," but his efforts to have Johnson's name lopped off the ballot were foiled by the U.S. Supreme Court. The former Governor then switched his support to the Republican, Porter, and he has undoubtedly taken a passel of old-line Democrats across the tracks with him. This "treachery," plus Democratic uneasiness over the President's civil rights program and the attractions of a straight Republican ticket, makes it quite possible that Porter will edge out Lyndon Johnson for the junior...
Former O.P.A. administrator Paul A. Porter last night bucked the academic cyclical theory of "boom-bust" and predicted that adequate governmental controls would prevent a depression...
...economy forever operating like an inchworm--with a hump for the 'boom' and a glide for the 'bust,'" Porter declared...
...Porter made these claims before an second Law School Forum of the fall series...
...Porter, on the other hand, supported the return of direct price control on consumer goods, a tax on excess profits, restoration of full rent control, extension of consumer credit controls, and allocation of critical materials in short supply...