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Perhaps the best move to make at this point, in order to save undergraduate freedom, would be to permanently assign Monks to Appley Hall 35, where he can further evolve his ideas without distraction. Thomas D. Edwards '53, Varick Bacon '55, F. P. Maybank '55, J. R. Corcoran
...shine, $1 for a haircut). But some, who remained nameless throughout the incident, got to thinking that free should mean free. So Forest A. Harness, the new Republican sergeant at arms, told a sad barbershop crew: no more tips. When South Carolina's freshly clipped Democratic Senator Burnet Maybank reached out with a dollar and was told the barber couldn't accept it, he roared: "I won't break the rules but that rule has got to be changed. I been paying a dollar every haircut since...
...view of Maybank and other willing tippers prevailed. By last week the new rule had been withdrawn and everything had been tipped back into place...
This troublesome situation was quickly illustrated when South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, chairman of the controls-controlling Banking & Currency Committee, spoke up. Present controls are adequate, he said. Then he talked about inflation in terms of wages, which is almost heresy in the Truman Administration: "The wage increases which recently have been allowed in the steel industry and in other industries are certain to have an inflationary effect." A special session, with Maybank and other Southerners talking like that, would de-unify the Democratic Party in short order. Adlai Stevenson, who had officiated at the reconciliation ceremonies...
Congress' immediate reaction to Harry Truman's seizure of the steel mills was a volley of polysyllabic denunciation: "usurpation . . . socialization . . . intemperate . . . dangerous implications . . ." New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges demanded a Judiciary Committee inquiry. South Carolina's Democrat Burnet Maybank called a halt to consideration of the controls program, due to expire June 30. Even the most ardent friends of labor warned that Harry Truman was wielding a two-edged sword-one that in the hands of another President might be turned against labor itself...