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Felt Necessities. Privately, the 27-year-old ex-soldier had other views about his experience. "We [soldiers]," he said, "have learned that whether a man accepts from Fortune her spade and will look downward and dig, or from Aspiration her axe and cord and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart." But when Emerson talked to him passionately of the work of reconstruction that lay ahead, young Holmes felt no crusader's impulse. "Merely, he desired to use his brain, drive...
...manipulated politically that, while everybody else loses, the potent 2,000,000 cottongrowers cannot. Commodity Credit Corporation must lend them up to 90% of the parity price for their crops. If prices go up, the growers can reclaim their cotton for private sale. But if prices start downward, an artificial scarcity is created. For eleven years cottongrowers have unloaded their surpluses on the U.S. taxpayer, and have used the taxpayer's money to build a firm floor under cotton prices. CCC cotton holdings last month: seven million bales...
There were Japs in that tangle. One infantryman suddenly stood up and calmly fired his Tommy gun downward into the brush. Two others stood by with bayoneted rifles poised. A grenade went off in a puff of smoke. Other soldiers around seemed inattentive, looking off across an area of broken palms where heavy firing was going...
...Reduction of the state sales tax from 3% to 2½%; raising of personal exemptions in the income tax. (Said Warren: "It didn't mean much to the average individual taxpayer, but it did turn the tax indicator downward for the first time in history...
...Swing your hands loosely between the knees and let your body slump downward until the backs of your hands touch the floor. Raise hips. Straighten back. Then your head. Repeat three times...