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Government, said Taft, had an obligation to help those who simply could not help themselves. On that principle he estimated the Taft program for housing, health, education and relief would cost only $1 billion a year; in contrast, he figured, the Fair Deal line which Harry Truman was peddling would cost the country $14 billion a year...
...produced last year's whipping boys - the 80th Congress and "selfish interests"-but he had freshened up the lines. Now, he declared, there was a "scare-word" campaign. "The people want public housing for low-income families," Truman said. "The selfish interests . . . think it will cut down on their own income so they call it 'collectivism' . . . The people want fair laws for labor. The selfish interests . . . mistakenly fear that their profits will be reduced, so they call that 'statism' . . . We don't care what they call it . . . The people want a fair program...
...could not identify them at present, he said, but a little further along in the campaign he might identify some individuals and some special interests. "Which campaign?" a newsman shot back. The 1950 campaign, said Truman with a grin. The campaign always begins on Labor Day of the year before the election takes place-didn't he know that...
...then settled back to a lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year-old ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Dulles finally agreed. Said Dulles: "My own conscience wouldn't have it otherwise...
...restored to duty as the Army's Quartermaster General. Major General Alden H. Waitt, 56, who had tried to wangle a second term as chief of the Chemical Corps by running down all his potential rivals, was sacked: he went into retirement on a $6,600-a-year pension...