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...rebuked. And Douglas MacArthur, speaking his piece on Formosa, got the President so worked up that he ordered the General to withdraw his remarks. It was the kind of week during which a President might well ask himself why he had ever gotten into politics in the first place...
...week, Pressman decided to reverse his field. Apparently on the grounds that confession might be good for a goal, he also retailed some sins to the press. He admitted having joined the Communist Party in 1934: it was all, he said, because of the depression and Hitlerism. He had gotten out after one year, though he continued to run with top Communists for 15 more. He had never known Alger Hiss as a Communist. And he was now against the Russians...
...business is essentially the same ... As long as you keep your eyes open, know what's going on and keep your nose clean, you get along all right." On such a homemade maxim, big (6 ft. 1 in.) Emil Schram has gotten along fine. He was a successful farmer, irrigation expert and president of RFC when he became president of the New York Stock Exchange...
Dismayed by the less-than-favorable publicity she had gotten, and hurt by the U.N.'s lack of appreciation, Mrs. Planas withdrew her offer and decided henceforth to devote more of her time to her church, a group called Spirit Science, of which she is president. In a chapel inside her house, Mrs. Planas conducts seances every Saturday. Three years from now, she said at week's end, "according to the spirits, I will become President of the Philippines...
...date, no one in State's gleaming headquarters in Foggy Bottom has gotten around to suggesting to Britain that it might be time to quit acting like an unwanted butler and to deal with the Reds as at least an equal. So far as is known, no one has ever gotten around to suggesting to Dean Acheson that the U.S. itself, if it is really facing the possibility of a fight with Formosa's Nationalists at its side, had better start treating Chiang Kaishek's forces as equals...