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Vlastos, professor of Philosophy, said that the appearance of Hiss in spite of wide prostest was a great boost to University morale. "There is terrific reaffirmation of Princeton's principles. Gregory the appearance of Alger Hiss was a heartening Philosophy departments. Now his invective became so extreme that practically everyone on campus joined in the ridicule. He met incessant boos and jeers at his anti-Hiss, anti-Princeton talk on the eve of the great event, and caused a minor demonstration when he asserted, "Princeton is in its darkest hour...
...very moment U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold started his delicate peacemaking mission in the Middle East, the U.S. gave him a tremendous boost on his way. In a pivotal policy statement issued last week at Augusta, Ga., President Eisenhower pledged "support in the fullest measure" for Hammarskjold and for the whole principle of working through U.N. to prevent a new Palestine war. With such emphatic backing, as well as a mandate from the U.N. Security Council, Hammarskjold went into action last week clothed with far greater authority than that of a skilled international bureaucrat trying to be helpful. The first...
...small businessman's growing prosperity, SBA took a modest share of the credit. To boost its own loan program, it teamed up with local banks to finance capital improvement loans for such small companies as neighborhood stores; in 1955's last half SBA approved $30,332,390 in loans, an increase of 20% over the previous six months. But SBA's proudest accomplishment is channeling a bigger share of Government contracts to small business. This year, said SBA, the Government will boost to $158 million its contracts with small businessmen, a gain of more than 100% over...
...Weekend. To boost company revenues, as well as to speed travel, Reed cultivates most of the top businessmen and Government officials in the U.S. and abroad. One postwar venture for the company was suggested by President Eisenhower, with whom Reed occasionally plays golf. Europe-bound on the Queen Mary in 1946, Reed was called in by Fellow Passenger Ike, who suggested that American Express could set up recreation, banking and sightseeing services for U.S. occupation troops. As a result, American Express now operates 115 overseas offices and 54 mobile units for G.I.s, has 30 agents to handle sailors' tours...
...boom in Western Europe has lifted living standards all over the Continent, says ECE, but few Western nations have taken advantage of prosperity to step up their capital investments, and thereby boost production. Russia and her satellites, on the other hand, are investing about 25% of their national income in new factories, new machine tools, bigger inventories and more defense equipment. By ECE's rough comparison, Italy. Austria, The Netherlands and West Germany put only 10-15% of their income into expanding the economy. France spent only 8% of its income for new production, and at the bottom...