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...pamphlet, entitled "The Impact of Inflation upon Higher Education," is an interim report in the commission's "long-range study of the financial problems of American colleges and universities...
...Alibi. In January 1949, when he became Secretary after a brief interim with his old Washington law firm Acheson therefore inherited some of the policies and problems which he had helped create. Although he might have preferred to turn his back on the East, he was prodded into facing it. Gingerly he measured the problem of Asia, which by this time was well on the way to becoming an immeasurable disaster...
...County Clerk Richard Daley, who also had the backing of Governor Adlai Stevenson. That equivocating enigma, Chicago's Mayor Martin Kennelly, wanting to get re-elected in April, and needing the old guard's machine support, took a position in between. Result: a compromise, with Gill as interim chairman until the mayoralty election, and Daley as vice chairman. The solution merely postponed the real fight. Said Paul Douglas, quoting from Cardinal Newman's famed hymn: "I do not ask to see the distant scene; one step enough...
...State Department urged that provisional local administration in North Korea should be set up by General MacArthur, should remain subject to his authority until a permanent government could be elected. The U.N. interim committee on Korea agreed with the U.S., passed a resolution requesting MacArthur to organize such civil government...
...interim tax law which raises income taxes an average of 17%, effective Oct. 1, will gather only about $2.7 billion extra over twelve months' time. Another raise next year, if twice as stiff, would probably bring in added taxes at the rate of no more than $6 billion a year. That would leave $5 billion to be gathered from broadened excise taxes, or from a federal sales tax-all of which would result in the highest levies in U.S. history. Congress might not stand for that, might decide instead to go deeper into debt (national debt today: $256 billion...