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...know of no time in our country's history when the forces of intelligent conservatism have been in greater danger of obliteration." So said Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield in the major speech before the National Association of Manufacturers' 63rd annual congress. In the kind of rousing talk that N.A.M. members like to hear, Summerfield warned that "America today teeters on the precipice of a labor-bossed Congress." was sure that President Eisenhower will propose legislation to protect workers "from exploitation by unscrupulous and corrupt union bosses." Unless antitrust law principles are applied to the "labor-boss monopoly...
...Only remaining members: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Táft Benson, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield...
...above-normal, Christmas-like post office rush, anticipated the increase of postal rates from 3? to 4? (lavender-colored Lincolns or gold-colored Bolivars) for first-class letters, from 2? to 3? for postcards, from 6?: to 7? for domestic airmail. Richer by $450 million revenue, Postmaster General Summerfield rosily called it "the beginning of the greatest period of postal progress in American history." Epilogue to an era, in the letters-to-the-editor column of the Chicago Daily News: "I have nothing to say, but I thought I'd just write one more letter to the editor before...
...vote was hardly a clear-cut victory for fiscal responsibility. For one thing, with a canny display of practical politicking. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and his aides patrolled the Republican cloakroom right up to the count, displaying a list of post offices in members' states that might be rebuilt or modernized with $175 million of the money the new rate would bring...
Dose of Urgency. When it came time next day to present domestic proposals to Republican leaders, the only Cabinet member with a ready-to-deliver program was Labor Secretary James Mitchell (see LABOR). Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield renewed his pitch for postal rate increases. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom promised to develop some sort of plan to improve U.S. scientific training (significantly, Folsom said nothing whatever about the Administration's last school construction program, which was killed in the House). Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson talked about saving $500 million by eliminating the acreage reserve section...