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...intense loyalty of Bennett and Sorensen there can be no question. But as to how they will pull together - with Edsel gone - there is doubt. The empire has long been split into two warring kingdoms, with Bennett ruling one, Sorensen the other. Edsel Ford gave his tacit support to Sorensen, counteracting the tremendous influence Bennett has with Henry Ford. The scales are now tipped far the other way. This Tuesday Bennett was made a director (Sorensen was one already) at the same time that Edsel's widow and three other executives were added to the board. But Henry Ford...
According to his opinion, there is less inclination to use the church as a political and military weapon, and more of a tacit willingness to let it cultivate "those concerns which Christendom has tended to concede it as its distinctive bailiwick. Such a task would seem to be its most effective contribution to national morale." However, Dean Sperry warned of the danger of divorcing religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, thereby leaving the ordering of civilization to secular forces...
...years when Henderson bossed prices the official Administration policy (as revealed in action) made two tacit assumptions: 1) that prices could be held tight by the use of direct price controls and ceilings unsupported by a strong, courageous fiscal policy; 2) that the U.S. could fight a major war without having higher prices exact the inevitable economic sacrifices of war from its citizens...
Pearl Harbor may have shaken U.S. isolationism politically, but it was news last week when a professor challenged its tacit acceptance in U.S. history teaching. At Columbia University's Barnard College (for women) Professor Eugene Hugh Byrne announced a course in "de-isolationized" U.S. history: "World history from the American standpoint...
Henry Morgenthau and his tax experts marched up Capitol Hill and marched right down again. They came up to propose a new tax program; for all political purposes they were almost kicked downhill. The tacit assumption of recent years that the Administration knows best about taxes† was for once emphatically rejected. The Senate Finance Committee let the Treasury understand that it knew what it wanted...