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...largest auditoriums were forbidden to them. Just outside the city limits, in two huge halls, 100,000 Poujadistes cheered and shouted approval as their young leader, self-styled "Robin Hood of taxpayers," insulted Premier Mendés-France, his Cabinet and his programs. " We want our share of the cake, too," shouted Poujade. "From tomorrow on, we don't pay any taxes until they show us a fiscal reform worth its salt. Agreed?" Bellowed the Poujadistes: "Agreed!" Poujade's ideas for reform: no more penalties for evaders if caught, no more tax inspections to discover fraud, amnesty...
...home county of York, a Republican couple named their newborn baby George Leader in his honor. (Leader, who cut his own 37th birthday cake the day before, wired the infant: DEAR GEORGE: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS SOME DAY HOW HONORED AND PLEASED I FELT...
...Quincy's day. Then it became an orgy, highlighted by such scenes as "the College janitor, in vain protesting, yet not without hilarious collusion on his own part, (being) borne in wavering triumph on a door." The afternoon always began in Wadsworth House over what Professor Morison cryptically calls "cake and wine...
Your choice should have been Eisenhower, [who] labored hard for America that it have its cake and eat it too . . . Dulles is only an earnest fellow on horseback galloping madly off in all directions...
...Richard L. Neuberger went off to Washington last week with a brand-new tuxedo and Muffet (to keep him company until Maurine resigns from the legislature in May), he had the grudging admiration and good wishes of Oregon's Republicans. Said former National Committeeman Ralph Cake: "While I believe he's a fellow who doesn't want to go too deeply into things at times, I think it's a certainty he will try to do everything he can for the state and the region...