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...been breaking the law all along.* I don't see why he suddenly has become so pious that he can't keep essential service going.'' Mailman Summerfield refused to budge until he got cash on the barrelhead. And he took the opportunity to remind the U.S. of one of the freaks of Government accounting: no matter how much money the Post Office takes in by selling stamps and money orders, the Post Office cannot use a cent of it. Reason: the receipts go into the general fund of the Treasury, while the Post Office lives strictly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POST OFFICE: The Bluff That Wasn't | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Sunday morning, Webster called at the Parkman home and identified himself as the visitor who had stopped to remind Parkman of the appointment. The appointment had been kept; Webster said he had seen Parkman at the Medical School, (then near the present Mass. General Hospital), and had paid him $483.64, which he owed the doctor. "I told Dr. Parkman," he said, "that he hadn't discharged the mortgage; to which he replied, 'I will see to that. I will see to that.' He then went out very rapidly from the room...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Grisly Murder Case Shocked Med School | 4/19/1957 | See Source »

Worm-eaten Met. So the younger generation would not get any too-daring ideas, former Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov, now Central Committee secretary, appeared to remind everyone of the "irreconcilable struggle against degrading musical art of the capitalist world." Shepilov praised "comradely controversy" and "respect for different views," but he also insisted that the "fundamental esthetic principles" of the Zhdanov decree are "immutable." He wound up the congress with a surefire blast at the West. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, he remarked, is housed in an "old, dirty, worm-eaten, leaky building," dependent upon artists from West Germany, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Moscow Music Congress | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...judge but that of a minefield through which authority, great and small, and at every level of policy and administration, must step warily, conscious always that a false step may blow it up. The estate of journalism is a dangerous one. It exists as a force in society to remind all those who govern that systems are made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press as a Minefield | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

House Minority Leader Joe Martin rose amid the high jinks to remind Democratic colleagues that Republicans in the old days never hesitated to cut Democratic budgets: "We did not dodge our responsibility. We cut the budget. And if you can, you should." Kansas Republican Errett Scrivner was more pointed: "Foreign aid, of course, can be cut. Military-some cuts are in prospect. How about agriculture? Will you cut a big deficit of $700 million a year in the Post Office by raising postal rates? How about Welfare? Health? National forests? Power dams? Public housing? Aviation assistance? Civil defense? Business aids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Budget Stew | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

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