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...isolationist, and when he inveighed against lend-lease and the neutrality act, he lost votes. Franklin Roosevelt saved him from defeat in the 1940 senatorial campaign. In 1934 Roosevelt publicly called him "old friend," and then invited him to a well-publicized White House luncheon as a campaign boost. After Pearl Harbor, Young Bob supported the bipartisan foreign policy, but late in the war he put on his old isolationist hat again. The United Nations, he said, was "a gilded façade for the old-style military alliance built exclusively on force...
Cigarette makers had a case, of sorts, but not if one looked only at their profits. In 1952 all of them, with the exception of Philip Morris, managed to boost their profits or hold their own. But the tobacco men argued that their profit per sales dollar was way down...
...admissions Office could boost this prestige by a systematic perusal of every incoming freshman and sophomore from areas in which. Harvard drawing power is weak. Those students whom the Deans, with the advice of the present Committeemen, think potentially helpful would receive a personal invitation to join from Dean Bender. This would add to the prestige incentive and also assure that overly rabid football fans and other who could not judge good prospects would stay out of the Committee...
...business conditions. Last week Government bonds were also weak. Long-term (20year) issues sold below 95 for the first time since issuance, bringing their yield up to 2.8%. Reason for the drop: investors think that the Treasury, in its effort to lengthen debt maturities (TIME, Feb. 9), will boost rates on new long-term issues to 3% and more...
...spite of the boost provided by a swollen war economy, the nation's aircraft industries are more stable now than over before. The demand for scientific talent should continue indefinitely