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...will not answer a question if I do not choose," snapped Churchill. On the "new pattern" of rearmament, Churchill spoke words that were almost a steal from the lines spouted for months by Nye Bevan: "The defense programs must be kept within the limits of our economic strength." Machinery, automobiles, armaments and other metal-using industries would have to be given a higher priority for export goods, and defense production would have to suffer. Well, how much...
Blue Urge. In San Antonio, after he was arrested trying to steal a police launch on the San Antonio River, George R. Perry, 19, explained: "I want...
...Taft managers were caught between the highly damaging publicity of the Texas steal and their need for the stolen Texas votes. Texas was in the public eye, but the Georgia contest had received little publicity-for a good reason. The case for the Taft delegation from Georgia was so weak that not even Taft leaders took it seriously. A month ago top Taft leaders had no intention of making a serious fight on Georgia...
...county conventions overwhelmingly for Ike, only to be unseated by the Taft-controlled organization at the state convention in Mineral Wells (TIME, June 9). The only Taft argument was the charge, based on assumptions, that the Eisenhower voters were Democrats. A wave of disgust at Taft's Texas "steal" had swept across the country. Something had to be done...
...sharpers and keen-witted kibitzers who rollick through the book. This volatile world often seems like something out of the merrier parts of Dickens: a director with three wives, a sentimental actress always in search of a husband, and harmless scoundrels who are never happier than when plotting to steal each other's prima donnas...