Word: swigert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hefty $3.3 billion. Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, working on his yearly clipped-wing "Byrd budget," promises that he will show Congress how to save at least $5 billion, but has yet to produce the details. The National Association of Manufacturers, whose President Ernest G. Swigert last week damned Ike's budget as "extravagant and inflationary," proposes a massive whack of $6.5 billion. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls for cuts totaling $4.2 billion, and is still looking for soft spots. Chamber President John S. Coleman contends that a slash of at least $5 billion is "absolutely essential...
Incoming N.A.M. President Ernest G. (for Goodnough) Swigert of Portland, Ore, also was troubled by the tax system : "We must make a complete change in our whole theory of taxation. The tax system should be designed for raising revenue and not for reforming society." Swigert warned against adding to inflation by overstimulating production, cited "the ridiculous 1955 production race" of auto manufacturers...
...athletic 64, Swigert began his impressive business career in 1915, just out of Harvard, took time out to become a pilot in World War I, and in 1929 founded his own firm, the Hyster Co., which now employs 2,000, manufactures hoists, cranes and similar equipment. What does President Swigert think of next year's prospects for U.S. business? "I would be surprised if 1957 were as high as 1956," said he cautiously, "but I wouldn't be too surprised if I were wrong...
Eliot House defeated Berkely College of Yale, 3 to 2, in the playoffs of the 'A' League championship intramural squash teains of Harvard and Yale. Hank Swigert, Elliot Hawkins, and John Glessner, the number two, three, and four men of the victors, took their matches...
Paul Garrig (H) beat Jack Snell (MIT), 15-9, 16-13, 15-9, and Matt Reynolds (H) won over Ron Gibson (MIT), 15-11, 15-7, 15-10. Fifth man Hank Swigert (H), who is the only junior on the team, beat Joe Melavas...