Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican National Committee, representing the party of thrift, should practice what it preaches. So said G.O.P. Treasurer James Scott Kemper last week in a huffy letter of resignation to National Chairman Guy Gabrielson. Wrote Kemper: "We neither have collected the funds I thought we should collect nor have we reduced expenditures drastically." The party's reserves had dropped from $800,000 in July 1948 to $90,000-"for me," wrote Kemper, "a real tragedy...
Local people had volunteered to do all the Christmas stamping themselves, but Mrs. Tucker was told that it was against the rules to turn over the letters to them. "Surely if a concession is made for any office," said Mrs. Tucker, "it should be made for Christmas ... I have again appealed to the Postmaster General to work out some compromise...
...Said the Postmaster General's office: rules are rules...
...Western Europe's private trade (this would leave out a large volume of trade carried on by governments). Paul Hoffman made it clear that this measure had not gone very far to satisfy him. "There is no magic in words . . . the magic lies only in action," he said. "If there is a failure to act ... we may have a new kind of dark age in the world...
...barriers were lifted. Economists are afraid that the dislocations necessary to attain the long-range objective of integration would interfere with Western Europe's urgent short-range objective of earning more dollars. Politicians are afraid that economic hardships would give the Communists a chance to recapture lost ground. Said London's Economist last week: "[It] is not possible ... to telescope into one great act of policy a process which took over three generations to complete in the preindustrial United States...