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...skipper is physically and spiritually strong. . . . Overpowering events . . . have given the grinning, gum-chewing Missourian new stature, new dignity, new confidence-but no pomp. [He] is less of an autocratic figure than any White House incumbent since Taft. There is no 'crackdown' in his system. Even those who have the hatchet out for Truman . . . acknowledge his determined honesty. . . ." There were those who sought to smear him, said Considine, but Harry Truman was a man's kind of man, as American as ham & eggs...
...Crackdown followed Allied crackdown as the Allies turned the screws on Germany...
...basis of the Government's probe and a preliminary report, the Chinese press demanded a crackdown on those responsible. Censorship withheld the news from distribution abroad. The alleged "fortunes" made by "insiders" were enormous only in terms of inflated currency. The 45 billion Chinese dollars pocketed by one group amounted to 45 thousand Chinese dollars in terms of prewar purchasing power. (The retail-price index has risen to 1,250 times what...
Other, almost incredible, examples crowded the Committee's reports. While one arm of the Government tried to dispose of 31,000,000 surgical dressings recently, another agency called loudly for 47,000,000 of the same dressings. Unfortunately, they could not hear each other. Spurred to crackdown action last week, the Mead Committee wanted to know why. Said Chairman Mead, warning agencies to get their faces ready for future, painful scrutiny...
...week's end, no one knew the score-for certain. But Washington insiders held to the notion that racing was the one real target of the crackdown, and that the crack about re-examination of 4-Fs was a sop to silence race-track squawks. For one thing, every rejected draft registrant always has been subject to re-examination at any time; for another, it is no secret that Washington was sorely irked by last year's race-track gambling of a billion dollars that might have gone into war bonds, and by the increase in war-plant...