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...James Rorty and N. P. Norman, M.D. A large number of Rorty's books can be taken out, but this one is at the Medical School Library. So is Harvey Wiley's "History of a Crime." All his many other books can be taken out. Many books of Upton Sinclair are listed, only one can not be read, "The Art of Health...
...three, the foreign trade program was in the deepest trouble. Just how deep was indicated the day after the President's speech, when House Speaker Sam Rayburn summoned Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to Capitol Hill. Also present at the closed-door meeting were House Republican Leader Joe Martin and Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. Rayburn's grim warning to Weeks: the foreign trade bill faces total defeat in the House unless the Administration backs away from its insistence on a five-year extension and increased presidential tariff-cutting authority...
...Sinclair Weeks refused to cooperate. "We still want that bill," said he. But getting it was entirely another thing-and if the 24-year-old reciprocal trade program, third and perhaps most important of Dwight Eisenhower's imperatives, was not to be killed or turned into a basket case, it would require all the political pressure the President could bring to bear...
...thirds of the delegates were opposed to a tax cut now, said Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks. Opposition to a cut centered in the council's committee on taxes-headed by President Paul C. Cabot of Boston's State Street Investment Corp.-which questioned the value of "sprinkling a few dollars per taxpayer over the economy," considered a tax cut only a surface palliative for deeper economic ills. If a tax cut is inevitable, said the committee, it should be framed as a long-range reform of the entire tax structure instead of just a slash to spur...
From Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks last week came the Administration's program designed to bolster the nation's sick railroads. For immediate relief, the Administration proposed that the Government guarantee $700 million in loans; $500 million would be used to improve plant and facilities, $200 million for new freight cars. For long-term aid, the Administration wants to: ¶ Give the Interstate Commerce Commission power to drop unprofitable passenger and freight runs, and end the power of state commissions to block the ICC. ¶Tighten up on truckers now exempt from ICC rate regulations, since the Administration...