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...times. Readers seized on Goethe's Werther and Byron's Childe Harold as handy symbols of romanticism, on Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Ibsen's Nora to stand for the restless "modern" woman, on Hemingway's Lady Brett to personify the Lost Generation, on Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt to embody a generation that resolutely refused to get lost. Now a new literary symbol has emerged, a character who is a kind of poor relation to the rich, left-wing intellectual of the brilliant Huxley 'aos. He has started not only a new literary trend...
...Sinclair Oil Corp., Tidewater Oil Co., Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) and Cities Service Co. announced their best earnings in history, with profits up anywhere from 8.5% to 29%. ¶Eastman Kodak Co., with gains in nearly all major photographic lines, reported record sales and profits for 1957's first quarter. Sales were up 5.4% to $163 million, while earnings rose 4% higher than in 1956 to $17.7 million. ¶ Federated Department Stores, Inc. announced a new record for the fiscal year ended Feb. 2. Sales jumped $63.7 million to an alltime high of $601 million...
...Sinclair Weeks '14, Secretary of Commerce, last night defended the 1958 budget of the Eisenhower administration "in the main," while acknowledging that in some areas "we're probably spending too much money...
...with the Derby. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks began his week by faring forth to battle the budget cutters. Weeks practically dared the House to trim more than $50 million from his budget. Result: the House lopped off $217 million, a whopping 25%. President Eisenhower wrote the House Appropriations Committee expressing "deep concern" about proposed cuts in funds for the U.S. Information Agency. Result: the committee cut USIA by $37.9 million, or 26%. Hardly pausing for breath, it knocked $47.3 million, or 21%, from State Department budget requests. Army Secretary Wilber Brucker invited a group of Congressmen to witness at Army...
...Administration's programs under fire. Throughout the Administration the budget uproar came to be called "the Humphrey flap." Typical remark at Cabinet meetings: "George, you see what you cost me in the House this week?" The most outspoken of Humphrey's Cabinet critics was Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, whose New England sense of thrift is every bit as sharp as that of Midwesterner Humphrey...