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...Policy. Treasury's Texan Anderson reached agreement with congressional Texans Johnson and Sam Rayburn to keep tax cuts out of politics, won a wait-and-see period. Result: notable absence of grass-roots demand for tax cuts helped Congress avoid political temptation, keep income, corporation and most excise taxes at present levels...
...Mitchell recalled accurately that the Administration had submitted last January a reasonable, workable program for preventing union abuses, that the Democratic Senate had watered it down, and Republican prodding (mostly by California's Bill Knowland) had put some starch back into it. In the House, said Mitchell, Speaker Sam Rayburn let the bill age on his desk "40 days and 40 nights" before referring it to the anarchic House Labor Committee, chaired by North Carolina's molasses-moving Graham Barden...
...sorry it failed," commented one labor official. But the U.S. as a whole had been deeply stirred by McClellan's revelations of corruption in Big Labor, might at election time wonder why a Democratic-controlled Congress had not done something about it. The man to ask was Democrat Sam Rayburn, 45-year House veteran, who has wielded his gavel too long and ruled the House too well to botch a legislative job accidentally...
With his budget-bloating Porgy and Bess in suspended production because of a studio fire (TIME, July 14), Cinemogul Sam Goldwyn decided to fire Director Rouben Mamoulian.Reason: "Differences of opinion." "I have the greatest respect for Rouben Mamoulian," said Sam, "but . . ." Said Mamoulian, who directed both the original play and the original musical: "Mr. Goldwyn's bland statement hides a story of deceit and calumny. In a suit which I propose to file, it will be necessary at long last to expose his publicity greed, his professional hypocrisy and selfishness." Mamoulian's examples: Goldwyn insisted that...
What drives Sam Newhouse is the urge to expand, and last week word leaked out that he was chasing one of the brightest properties in the nation: the Baltimore Sunpapers, which thrive on civic crusades and solid, sober news coverage (six foreign correspondents, a nine-man Washington bureau). Newhouse has offered to buy between 51% and 70% of the stock of A. S. Abell Co., which owns the three papers (morning circ. 196,725; evening circ. 214,938; Sunday circ. 317,648), plus the Sun's TV station WMAR. Estimated price for 51% control: $20 million. So eager...