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...earnest and he is honest. He has enemies. Whenever you attack subversives of any kind, Communists, Fascists, even the Ku Klux Klan, you are going to be the victim of the most extremely vicious criticism that can be made. I know. But sometimes a knock is a boost. When certain elements cease their attacks on me, I'll know I'm slipping...
...change got its first major boost in 1938, when Negro Lloyd Gaines, backed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, won a Supreme Court decision forcing the University of Missouri to admit him to its law school on the ground that he could not find equal facilities anywhere else in the state. Since then. Negroes have found themselves on scores of once forbidden campuses. In almost every case, their experiences have fallen into a sort of pattern. There have been dire predictions of trouble and periods of tension. But the trouble has rarely materialized, and the tension...
DESPITE the Administration's drive for freer trade, the Department of Agriculture has decided that it must ask for a boost in tariffs on wool imports until it can find some way to pare down the 100 million-lb. domestic surplus the Government had to buy under its support program...
Last week Exchange members, voting on a proposal to increase commissions another 15%, turned it down by a vote of 573-532. Instead, the Exchange will try to boost volume through a plan suggested by President Keith Funston, a Wall Street newcomer: a way of selling stock to small investors on the installment plan. Under Funston's plan, a small investor who wants to buy one share of stock may do so by making a small monthly payment (minimum: about $40) to his broker. The money will be turned over to a bank, which will pool it with funds...
...coal can modernize and cut its costs, it has the chance to regain its former high estate. On the basis of current population trends, even if coal's share of the fuel market slips below 30%, statisticians figure that it should boost its sales, by 1975, to 880 million tons. But that figure will be a dream unless industry, labor and Government get together on a sensible cure for the chronic sick man of U.S. industry...