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Persuasive Support. The report, drafted by the President's Council of Economic Advisers, gave persuasive support to Eisenhower's conviction that the U.S. will be prosperous enough next fiscal year to produce budget-balancing revenues. Said the President: "If Government spending is held within the limits set in the proposed budget, the growth of our economy will make it possible in the reasonably foreseeable future to provide a significant further step in tax reform and reduction...
...balanced budget. As the kickoff to a series of specific moves, he asked Congress to revise the Full Employment Act of 1946 so as to reduce pressures for inflationary measures. With that proposal, in perhaps the most closely reasoned of all his economic reports, the President of the U.S. set forth the standards for an era of prudent affluence: "To make reasonable price stability an explicit goal of federal economic policy, coordinate with the goals of maximum production, employment, and purchasing power...
...griefs. Above all, he had failed to achieve the two goals closest to his heart: the unity of Ireland and the revival of Gaelic as the national tongue. But nobody thought for a minute that he would now fail to get into the Arus an Uachtarain, the presidential mansion set in Dublin's Phoenix Park. There was even talk that the opposition Fine Gael Party would let Dev run unopposed in the June presidential election-if only out of enthusiasm at the idea of seeing him safely removed from active politics. The independent Irish Times, which has often bitterly...
There is, it seems, only one complete set of personal plumbing on the premises, which the men have pre-empted by the principle of the dominant majority. The nearest facilities for females are to be found in Memorial Hall or Mallinckrodt, a good distance in the biting breezes of January...
...their gamble. Her forthcoming movie version of Lolita, to be called I Was a Teenage Nymphet, will be eagerly awaited. For Miss Glench is charming. Miss Glench is beautiful. Miss Glench is neatsie-poo. She sings like a nightingale, and she looks like one too, with the neatest little set of tailfeathers you could ever hope to see. Miss Glench, will you live in sin with...