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Wrote Lewis: the contract for a $1.90 wage boost is not inflationary-"it is pure as a sheep's heart." The WSB ruling is "contemptible." WSB Chairman Archibald Cox, "the little Harvard professor," and his associates formed a "cabal to steal 40? a day from each mine worker." Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam, who applauded the WSB ruling, shows a "sadistic trait," for he is "robbing miners' babies of life-giving milk...
Federal spending in July, August and September rose to $17.8 billion, a 20% boost above the comparable 1951 figure, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reported this week. The biggest increase was in civilian agencies; the Labor and Agriculture Departments' spending was 60% above last year. The only department to show a decrease: the Justice Department, which has sliced the budget...
...from such a movement, and from such a speech as that of last Monday. But unfortunately it was Eisenhower's closest political advisor, Senator Frank Carlson, who announced the strategy of using McCarthy back in September. And if that plan works, if McCarthy's speech does provide a final boost to the Republican campaign, it will put General Eisenhower in a position of obligation to the Senator. We hope, though little expect, that the General will have the courage to disavow this connection before it binds...
Murphy feels that in his present position he should stay out of politics, but leaves no doubt that he is a Republican at heart. He makes a careful distinction between areas in which he thinks the Federal Government can legitimately help to boost the nation's health (e.g., aid to medical schools, loans for building hospitals, and far-reaching public-health programs) and the area he insists it must shun. As he put it: "The Government has an important place in the picture, but England has proven to us that doctors and the application of medicine cannot...
...would bring the coal miners' benefits up to the national standard, the Board would be almost certain to approve it. Raising the vacation benefits to the nation would not establish an inflationary precedent; it would give the miners most of what they want, but cannot have as a pay boost...