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Roller operates the warehouse for the surplus property division of Iowa's department of general services for the benefit of some 1,500 public agencies in Iowa. A beneficent act of Congress requires that federal excess property be offered to state and local agencies, virtually free of charge, before it is put on public auction. That means before all those cigar-chomping characters who excel at turning a profit from reselling Government castoffs can lay hands...
...first glance the warehouse, with its mounds of gas-mask bags, ponchos, entrenching tools, field jackets, might be confused with some kind of Army-Navy store. Over the past few years Roller has acquired enough military surplus to equip the national guard of a modest-size Central American dictatorship. G.I. helmets and uniforms, for instance, are much in demand as props for high school drama departments...
...everything dear to him to jump into the Establishment's big East Coast pond, and by age 39 was leading the successful campaign to reform the New York Stock Exchange. He spent half of his life on the Supreme Court championing un popular causes and had so much surplus energy that he became a prolific author. He was almost President: Franklin Roosevelt wanted Douglas on the 1944 ticket rather than Harry Truman...
Although he said he was sorry to see some of the Democrats in the Senate fall to conservatives, Mansfield added that he believes "there is a surplus of liberal Democrats in Congress...
...reaches Washington, Mr. Dewey has promised to retain the large surplus and to reduce income taxes--at the same time. This would mean drastic budget cuts....In the nation the result would be the undermining, and possibly the scrapping, of many of the great social and economic agencies built up over the past sixteen years. This is what Mr. Dewey's efficiency would mean in Washington...