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...rehabilitate Hoover, appointing him chairman of a well-publicized commission on Government reorganization. Historians would never come to credit Hoover with effective measures against the Depression, but people had long since stopped thinking he had caused it. On into his 80s, pink-cheeked and bright-eyed, he gave stout Republican speeches at Republican conventions, puffed on his pipe and wrote some rather mellow reminiscences, including a volume on trout fishing...
...stout heart and true...
...Ronald Reagan's vision of a regenerated America could be painted, there is no question about which artist would best execute the commission: the late Norman Rockwell. The President's dreams for the future seem almost wholly derived from a sweeter, simpler, stout-hearted past. During his televised plea for a second wave of budget cuts last month, he seemed eager to finish with the drab statistics and demands for sacrifice, and get to the part where his idealism could shine...
...government newspaper declared that the new man "enjoys the sincere and warm approval of the state." The subject of all this attention was a short, stout farmer's son named Jozef Glemp, who was named Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and Roman Catholic Primate of Poland. "I want peace and unity for the whole nation," he promptly declared...
...conundrum: at the same time that they carry huge portfolios of old mortgages, including some that were made in the 1960s and yield 6% or 7%, S and Ls must pay 15% or more for new deposits. As a result, earnings have been squeezed, and more and more once stout S and Ls have become shaky. As of March, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) regarded 246 of the 4,560 S and Ls as "problem cases," vs. 79 in December 1979. Says H. Brent Beesley, director of the FSLIC : "There's a bad period ahead. Some...