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Needed: Statesmanship. Since higher corporate taxes tend to build themselves into the permanent tax structure, many businessmen probably prefer an excess profits tax which would end with the emergency. But the emergency which the U.S. now faces, as Harvard's Sumner H. Slichter pointed out, may last for a decade or more. During that time the U.S. must expand all of its resources in a production race with Russia. "We must see that our productive capacity grows rapidly," says Slichter. "An excess profits tax which discourages the growth of productive capacity ... could help us lose the contest. An excess...
Signers included Dean Griswold; Earnest A. Hooten, professor of Anthropology; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy; Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor; Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity; Michael Karpovich, professor of History; and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory...
...target in Korea," said Atomic Energy Commissioner Sumner Pike, "on which to use such a valuable and costly instrument of warfare...
...crotchety congressional Atomic Energy Committee. But as an administrator and a long-range policymaker, he is not regarded as the equal of David E. Lilienthal, who resigned the chairmanship in February after guiding AEC through its first tough three years. Nor is he considered as competent as outspoken Commissioner Sumner T. Pike, a Republican, who was renominated last week only after Brien McMahon assured the Senate that the President would not name Pike as chairman...
...often does the Senate ignore the recommendations of one of its own committees. But this week, after a warm flurry of argument, it overturned the majority decision of its atomic energy committee, and voted to approve blunt-spoken Sumner Pike, a Maine Republican, for another term on the Atomic Energy Commission...