Word: samuelson
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...conservatives, who in 1964 seized control of the state central committee that Smylie had dominated for ten years, picked State Senator Don W. Samuelson, 53, to oppose Smylie in the primary. Samuelson, a stolid, somewhat inarticulate politician who sells fire-fighting equipment and rock drills, campaigned principally on the notion that "the state government must be operated as a business," and promised to hire "a crew of certified public accountants" to make sure that it would be. It was not much, but, considering Smylie's new liabilities and the fact that he has recently become so preoccupied with national...
...Campaign. The irony of Smylie's defeat by Samuelson-who in November will face Democrat Charles Herndon, an unprepossessing protégé of North Idaho Democratic Boss Tom Boise-is that one of his duties as chairman of the Republican Governors is to advise other candidates about how to campaign and how to get grassroots support...
Robert J. Samuelson '67, president of the CRIMSON, and Joseph M. Russin '64, one of 92 past presidents, announced yesterday the victory of their teams in the annual CRIMSON undergraduate-alumni softball game, Rhesus J. Portfolio, long time CRIMSON mentor, assured reporters that "in any event, the final score...
...convention of mayors. "Increases at these rates cannot long be tolerated." The President then brought up a subject that has become just about the major source of speculation in Washington: the possibility of a tax increase. Despite widespread urgings by such economists as M.I.T.'s Paul Samuelson that taxes be hiked to head off inflation, Johnson has repeatedly said that he considers a tax hike a last resort and that he has not made up his mind to ask for one. If the price situation worsened, however, he noted last week, he would have little choice...
...supply, and when monetary measures have been exhausted, the balance can only be evened by cutting Government spending or raising taxes-fast. "The time for action is now," said John Langum, president of Chicago's Business Economics, Inc. "Instead, we have this happy talk that everything is fine." Samuelson, anxious to prove that "the new economics is an honest economics, a two-way street," urged that the existing 7% investment tax credit for business be dropped, corporate income taxes be raised from 48% to 50%, and individual income taxes be increased 5% across the board...