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Sponsored by an advisory commission headed by retired General Lucius Clay (now board chairman of the Continental Can Co.), the Republican bill was so written as to render it obnoxious to almost any legislator. It called for financing the highway program by special bond issues (thereby giving rise to the old wolf cry of "Wall Street") instead of under the politically tested system of federal-state matching funds, with the federal share coming from regular appropriations. The program would have been placed outside the annual appropriations control of Congress, a surrender of power unlikely to appeal to Congressmen. Also...
...devil's first choice certainly must be, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's." What could be more reasonable? The catch lies in dividing the "things." It develops that nearly everything that matters much is claimed by Caesar, and the leftovers for God are pretty slim. Increasingly Caesar, in the form of large business concerns, takes over everything from the up-and-coming executive, even to the kind of car he drives, the clothes his wife wears and his opinions on every subject except geometry. Caesar...
Under the plan, the work of the religious groups will have no connection with PBH's social service activities. "This is just another service the House can render to a few more groups," George A. Buttrick, Chairman of both the PBH and PBHA Committees, said last night. "There is absolutely no fear of any indictrination...
...both cards for abstention. But a Deputy does not have to be present to vote, and even if he is, he customarily lets his party leader deposit his vote. By judiciously mixing "yeas," "nays" and "abstains," a party leader can calculate just what degree of approval to render a policy, how to rebuke a Premier with an insultingly small majority, how to bring him down without taking the blame. If the leader needs more time to assess the situation, he simply drops in duplicate ballots for several Deputies, which forces a recount. Before every important vote, the Assembly adjourns...
...Render Unto Caesar. At Camp Rucker, Ala., Bible Salesman Leon Willie, 26, was fined $150 for gambling with minors after two G.I.s complained that he had taken $165 from them in a dice game...