Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Next day most of Boston hurried to make amends. The chamber of commerce invited the Japanese to lunch. Man-in-the-street polls showed that the citizenry was ashamed of its council. Massachusetts' Governor Paul A. Dever welcomed the Japanese to the gold-domed State House, where the legislature had just passed a resolution of censure for the Boston council...
That left Harry Truman no alternative. This week, with 372,200 now on strike, he invoked the machinery of the Taft-Hartley Act, a law which Harry Truman sometimes finds useful but also useful to hate. A three-man board of inquiry was ordered to make its report within seven days. An 80-day injunction was the next step. John L. Lewis had dared the President to do his worst: "To use the power of the state to drive men into the mines ... is involuntary servitude ... It is questionable whether one could postulate that such mass coercion would insure enthusiastic...
Business had been expecting something of a jackpot from the Administration, and it got paid off with a few nickels. When it came right down to it last week, the Administration was willing to trim a few wartime excise taxes here & there, but to make up for the favor, it wanted to increase other taxes on business by another $1 billion a year...
Thus, in the next few weeks, potatoes which the Government will buy for about $1.10 a bushel will be "sold" back to the grower for fertilizer or feed for three-fifths of a cent a bushel. Just to make sure that no one then tries to sell them back to big-hearted Uncle Sam for another $1.10 a bushel, the Department of Agriculture will, appropriately, dye its abandoned spuds a deep blue...
...Acquisitive Eye. In an age when most businessmen allow themselves to be governed by politicians, unions, directors, psychiatrists, the threat of ulcers and the precepts of Emily Post, McCarthy holds himself accountable only to McCarthy. Both in his bull-like determination to make himself Houston's first citizen and in the conduct of his business empire-which includes vast oil holdings, Houston's radio station KXYZ, a chemical works, 14 neighborhood newspapers and a swank men's shop-he often seems a throwback to the lustier days of the 19th Century...