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...week long, important callers moved in and out of the Gettysburg office, where two-inch, bulletproof glass in heavy steel frames had just been placed over the windows. Marion Folsom, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Budget Director Rowland Hughes went in to talk about the HEW budget. Massachusetts' wise, cowlicked Representative Joe Martin, 71, Republican leader of the House, and California's pin-neat, trim (down 25 Ibs. to 208) William Knowland, minority leader of the Senate, went in for separate conferences on legislation, with incidental attention to politics. Each talked to the President about what...
...continued growth of the U.S. economy, the Administration last week came close to outright prediction that tax revenues, higher than estimated, plus careful cost-cutting, can wipe out the $1.7 billion federal deficit and balance the budget. After discussing proposed 1957 expenses with the President at Gettysburg, Budget Director Rowland Hughes told reporters that the Government's income should match its estimated $63 billion outgo, not only in 1957 but in the current fiscal year ending June...
Doctor's Orders. In Nashville, asked by the judge why he passed three bad checks in a local store, W. P. Rowland explained that he had been bothered by a back ailment, was restricted to light work...
...competition with the building industry, the Budget Bureau and the General Services Administration last year tried a new idea. Why not let private builders pay for new post offices and other federal buildings, sell them to the Government on a lease-purchase deal? Last week Budget Bureau Director Rowland R. Hughes reported that the lease-purchase program's first year has been highly successful. The General Services Administration has approved 26 lease-purchase building projects valued at a total of $91 million; the Post Office Department has approved 27 projects. Total value...
...Wealthy Philadelphia Contractor John B. Kelly decided not to sue Rave for a story about his daughter, Cinemactress Grace Kelly, when he learned that its editor (then on the masthead as "Victor Huntington Rowland") "didn't have a dime." Said ex-Olympic Sculler Kelly: "If my son or I ever meet him, we'll take him on ... We'll settle it in our own way without a lawsuit...