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...Bulldozer. Indiana's Capehart had been a symbol for decontrol for nearly two years. His Capehart amendment (permitting price hikes to cover all cost increases from the beginning of the Korean war to July 26, 1951) shot price ceilings full of holes and aroused the wrath of the Truman Administration. Harry Truman said it was "like a bulldozer, crashing aimlessly through existing price formulas, leaving havoc in its wake." Little wonder, then, that Capitol Hill was startled this year when Bulldozer Capehart proposed that Congress give the President power to freeze wages, prices and rents for 90 days...
Manager Winters was also fired. But when the Houston port commission's wrath fell on Fellrath, he protested that he had done no wrong. Actually, he said, he had received $140,899 for his labors - not $100,000. "Whether I did or didn't make any money makes no difference. I reported every dime I made to the Internal Revenue Bureau ... If someone wanted so many bushels of No. 2 wheat shipped out, it was my job to meet the minimum specifications and no more. I used Canadian wheat as filler [and] the Houston Merchants' Exchange checked...
...Brainy Boys," and "Reds," the article asked, "How many courses in contemporary literature use George Orwell's Animal Farm or 1984, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Wittaker Chambers' Witness (probably the greatest autobiography in the world)? Instead they ballyhoo the dull books of the cultural left--Grapes of Wrath, The Little Foxes, Death of a Salesman, or even the destructive barren poetry of Ezra Pound...
...Wrath Deserved. Another general, Ambrose Burnside* seized a New York Times correspondent and ordered him shot. The Timesman was saved only by the intervention of General Grant. General George Meade had the Philadelphia Inquirer man ridden out of his headquarters on a horse bearing a sign: "Libeler of the Press...
...Civil War newspaperman often deserved the generals' righteous wrath. Efficient security censorship was at first unknown, and reporters gave away more military secrets to the enemy than a flock of spies. A typical dispatch from Illinois in the Chicago Tribune in 1861: "Our forces at Bird's Point now consist of the following regiments . . . [the] Eleventh Illinois . . . Twelfth Illinois . . . Eighteenth Illinois . . . also 17 pieces of artillery, consisting of six 24-pound siege guns, three 24-pound howitzers, two 12-pound howitzers and six 6-pound brass pieces." In October 1861, a New York Tribune correspondent in Missouri wrote...