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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl had all of Huey's lust for power and none of Huey's sure sense of how to use it. Huey had soaked the rich and paid the poor. Earl taxed rich & poor alike. Because of his taxes, cigarettes cost 27? a package, gasoline 29? to 31? a gallon. There was a tax on car parking and even on laundry. Louisiana's per capita income was among the lowest in the nation, but its per capita tax was the highest...
...buildings, said Mumford, were too high. Children could not use the elevators alone; mothers could not keep an eye on them from their kitchen windows. The foyers were dark, windowless and waste space. Though subsidized by tax exemption, the apartments were not reserved for low-income families. The "completely asphalted" playgrounds were inadequate...
Plain Tripe. Roaring like a subway express, Commissioner Moses retorted: "This is just plain tripe . . ." He pointed out that the buildings will house more tenants than the "rookeries" they replaced and use but 23% of the land compared to the rookeries' 60-70%. As for their height, "neither the Metropolitan nor public-housing officials can build two-story cottages or garden apartments housing a hundred people an acre on $8 to $10 a foot slum land. Mr. Mumford's funny arithmetic is based on the assumption that some private Santa Claus was . . . aching to buy this enormously expensive...
Many newsmen agree with him. "For the moment," said one bureau chief last week, 'Tearson is the one investigatory journalist in Washington, and we could use more like him. The rest are all pundits and deadpan reporters. If he laid off those predictions, he'd be a better journalist-and, I suppose, a poorer-paid one." There is no doubt that Pearson has had a healthy effect on Washington. When George C. Marshall was chief of staff, a general, worried over Army leaks to Pearson, went to the chief and urged that Pearson be bottled up by strict...
Cause of the whole disturbance at the Cleveland convention was the suspending of a New York chapter leader, Richard Crohn, by the National Administrative Committee of AVC. The reason for his suspension was his use of the AVC name in partisan politics, delegates explained...