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...nothing for me." 20. Mac Arthur. 21. Hoover. 22. John J. O'Brien. 23. William Randolph Hearst. 24. "It's a lot easier." 25. "Every time an Administration official gives out an optimistic statement about business conditions, the market immediately drops." 26. "Courage." 27. The symbol of the NRA. 28. Payless paydays. 29. "Many people have left their jobs for the more profitable one of selling apples." 30. Nixon. 31. Ford,while meeting with economic advisors at Vail, Colo. 32. Ford, Gas taxes. 33. Inflation. 34. Inflation, recession,and the energy crisis. 35. "Count every penny." 36. Economic summit conference...
...strength of both gun owners and gun control advocates should make the battle in the state legislature even more vicious this year. Given the repeated failure of attempts at pushing gun control measures through Congress, which is beset by lobbyists from the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA) and large gun manufacturers, the state legislatures have been receiving more attention recently...
Massachusetts, which already has some of the strictest licensing and registration laws in the country, has gotten so much of this attention that even the American Rifleman Magazine, the mouthpiece of the NRA, last spring called Boston the "center" of a growing movement bent on doing away with the right to bear arms by attacking gun owners at the state level...
Robert S. Kukla, a midwestern director of the NRA who flew into Boston for last year's hearinns on gun control, said in his testimony that "gun control constitutes a monumental hoax upon the American public. It is merely a diversion from concentration on the laws, regulations and procedures by which criminals should be incarcerated...
...deluded? The 48 per cent indubitably. History records as bitter experience the three main practical trials of the Controls Policy. The NRA of the early New Deal years focused its incomes engineering on the wages problem. It managed a limited success by "spreading the work"-that is, by employing more workers at regulated, reduced hourly rates for fewer hours, thereby reducing the total wages bill charged against business income...