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...needed relief for the Democratic corporal's guard. Langer had been obstinately against the bill from its inception, and began his harangue in the clangorous voice that makes every sentence sound like the cry of a newsboy with an extra. Weary Senators drifted off to doze on black leather couches in corridors or handy offices, leaving a few sentinels to guard the Senate floor. Shortly after 2 a.m., one of Langer's roars, punctuated by a crashing thump of his fist, frightened a sleeping page boy and sent him sprawling off his chair onto the floor...
...Gold, president of the leftist International Fur & Leather Workers' Union, also cut himself off, publicly, from the Communist Party this week. Gold, however, made it plain that he was resigning only so that his union could comply with the Taft-Hartley Law, and that after 30 years he was still as good a Red as ever. The New York Daily Worker, which ignored Lee Pressman's switch completely, clucked sympathetically over Ben Gold, who to hold his job would have to hide his true colors...
Consumer Goods. The bill not only wiped out reductions in excise taxes on furs, jewelry, leather goods, cosmetics, refrigerators, etc., which the House had approved June 29 in a slaphappy, early-Korea mood, but added new excise taxes on television sets and home-freeze units and closed old tax loopholes, to bring in an estimated $500 million in new revenue...
Winston Churchill looked around the quiet, grey-carpeted chamber, with its red leather chairs and chamois-covered walls, hurriedly built for last week's meeting of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg. Said he: "It is a wonder that we sit here in our new House of Europe, calmly discussing our plans for the future happiness and concord of our peoples and their moral and cultural ideals. It is a wonder, but at least it is better than getting into a panic...
...speed and convenience, Truman suggested that the excise-tax bill now in Congress be turned completely around. Drop entirely the proposed tax cuts for furs, purses, leather goods, the President told Congress, but keep that part of the bill which would have made up $500 million by closing tax loopholes. He recommended 1) an increase of $1.5 billion in corporation taxes and 2) return of individual tax rates to 1945 levels, to produce $3 billion. He suggested that corporations begin paying the new rates retroactively from Jan. 1, 1950, but that personal taxes not be increased until October...