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Undergraduates working in the college's employment plan received a boost yesterday when the Financial Aid Center and the Student Employment Office mailed out a letter telling of opportunities for scholarships next year and also describing summer and next year's prospects for jobs...
...furry model with a long floppy tail. It was the coonskin campaign cap of Tennessee's well-tailored Senator Estes Kefauver. The Kefauver-for-President boom was still hardly more than a boomlet. But in separate press conferences last week, two leading Democratic Senators gave the boomlet another boost. Illinois' Paul Douglas, who still wants Eisenhower for President, still hopes Harry Truman will just go quietly away, noted "increasingly favorable sentiment for Senator Kefauver." Minnesota's Fair Dealing Hubert Humphrey, who still owes his first loyalty to Harry Truman, also dropped the word that Kefauver would make...
...supporters of both Senator Taft and General Eisenhower regarded a resolution adopted yesterday by party chairmen of eighteen Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states as a boost for their respective candidates. The resolution...favored "a candidate whose hands are not tied and who has no strings attached, who will wage war without wavering against the gigantic pyramid of unholy power which has been erected on the banks of the Potomac." --from The New York Times January...
...Phil Murray does not believe in the escalator clause (which links pay scales to the cost of living) because it can go both ways. If he did, steelworkers would have got an automatic wage boost along with 1,250,000 railroad workers, last week, when the cost of living shot to an alltime high. It was up .8% in November to 189.3% of the 1935-39 period...
Most businessmen think not. In two years, $13.7 billion in new taxes have been loaded on corporations and individuals, including $9 billion in 1951, the biggest tax boost in U.S. history. Federal, state and local taxes now take 30% of the entire national income. Taxes and inflation have dented the dollar to the point where a U.S. couple with two children must earn $6,072 a year to enjoy the same standard of living that $3,000 a year brought in 1940. And the higher the income, the higher the ratio (see chart...