Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Galbraith, who in the last war was a deputy price administrator and who still keeps in close touch with Washington, favors strong indirect controls today, built around high taxation. Backing current Administration policy, he points out that high taxes can and should cover all the increased governmental spending, thus wiping out the inflationary effects of the war expenditures, And he feels profits will be high enough to encourage heavy production...
...committee will appoint captains for each dormitory entry to act as representatives. The program will include touch football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, swimming, and squash...
...touch football practice begins Thursday afternoon with the official schedule beginning next week and running through November...
...nothing intemperate about Pardon Our Existence. Olsen & Johnson, after achieving the utmost in noise and nuttiness with their Hellzapoppin cycle, have now plunged to the depths of unpalatable boredom. Adopting different and sedater tactics, abandoning the raucous for the merely raw, they have a way of making everything they touch turn to lead...
Died. John Francis ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, 87, oldtime "Young Napoleon" of Boston ward politics whose shrewd common touch and honeyed rendition of Sweet Adeline made him one of Boston's most influential Irish Democrats, got him elected U.S. Representative for three terms (1895-1901), mayor for two (1906-07; 1910-14); in Boston...