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...bonds held by its own agencies), and 2) it counts as income the excess of receipts over outlays for Government obligations such as social security. Because of these differences, the red ink is less in the cash budget than in the administrative budget-which is why politicos tend to slur over their deficits in the administrative budget and talk instead about the cash budget...
...Seldom have I heard Nyasa Africans called "niggers" and only occasionally "coons"by Nyasa Europeans [Sept. 14]. Your wording is a slur on both races. The usual is "native," "muntii"(person), "munt" (person abbreviated), though even these are beginning to suffer under the "locals' " aggravated persecution/inferiority complex so that "African" or "Nyasa" are generally taking their places...
...Negroes and whites while assistant superintendent of schools in Portland; 3) introduced in 1953 a banquet speaker who in 1945 had allegedly sponsored a dinner for Paul Robeson. Rogge claimed to represent hundreds of "taxpayers, school patrons and citizens," but refused te say who they were. Though the slur upon the non-Communist Urban League was obviously absurd, the board thought Rogge's charges required investigation, hired a firm of former...
Your politicians (and this is no slur on your remarkable people) are notoriously among the world's most venal, but the latest batch seems to have reached...
...materials to the U.S.; in return, the U.S. will provide Brazil with technical military assistance and training equipment. The pact, similar to others signed with Chile, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic, had long been blocked and bitterly attacked by Communists and extreme nationalists as a slur on Brazil's "sovereignty." To preside over the joint Brazilian-U.S. military commission, President Vargas appointed Brigadier Eduardo Gomes, his 1950 election opponent...