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...Overgrown Bureaucracy. On a bigger front, New York's tough old trumpet-voiced John Taber (R.) proposed an amendment that sent shivers running up & down the spines of Washington's bureaucracy. Taber proposed that Congress cut 200,000 employees off Government payrolls; reduce travel allowances by 20% for civilians, by 5% for the military; reduce allotments for Government transportation by 10%, for communications by 10%, for printing by 10%, for contractual services (e.g., law work, special expertizing, etc.) by 10%. Taber estimated his amendment would save $600 million. Not to be outdone, Iowa's big Ben Jensen...
...Princeton and Yale at Derby May 20 E.A.R.C. at Annapolis May 21 American Henley Regatta Junior Varsity 150-Pound Crew May 6 M.I.T. May 13 Princeton and Yale at Derby May 20 E.A.R.C. at Annapolis May 21 American Henley Regatta Freshman 150-Pound Crew May 6 M.I.T., Taber Academy, and Brown and Nichols May 13 Princeton and Yale at Dorby May 20 E.A.R.C. at Annapolis May 21 American Henely Regatta Varsity Track April 15 Boston College April 22 Rhode Island State April 29 Boston University and Holy Cross May 6 At Dartmouth May 13 Yale May 20 Heptagonals...
Recently the faculty voted to recommend through Captain Taber Bonney, professor of Naval Science, that the Navy revise its loyalty oath...
...Capitol Hill scurried ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, who had spent anxious months justifying the appropriations. To Republican Leader Joseph Martin and Republican Tightwad John Taber, Salesman Hoffman made an urgent, timely appeal. The cuts, warned Hoffman, would embarrass Secretary of State Dean Acheson at the Big Four conference in Paris. Hoffman's proposition: let the cuts stand, but let ECA come back for more at the end of 13½ months instead of the 15 months originally intended...
There was little immediate prospect of that. The House's Martin-Halleck-Taber leadership was too firmly entrenched. Liberal G.O.P. Senators would find it hard to agree upon an alternate to Ohio's Bob Taft, himself far more liberal than the House's ruling clique...