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...they could not pay off their debt. To buy a house in those days, a man might need half the price for a down payment, often had to take out first, second and third mortgages at up to 10% interest. By its insurance guarantees, FHA brought about the national pattern of liberal, single-mortgage financing at low interest rates. Now a man can buy an $8,000 house with $1,600 down and 20 years to pay, at 4^% interest. Result: an estimated 60% of U.S. families own their homes today v. 44% in 1940. Mortgage foreclosures have dropped (only...
...course, Brownell's actions can also be interpreted as a series of spot decisions. But they fit too well into a pattern of lifelong political strategy not to be a planned maneuver. Back when Brownell was masterminding Gubernatorial politics in New York, the Republicans consistently posed as a party of liberalism, pulling issues of social reform out from under the Democrats and winning state elections when the national party was losing them. Dewey's "me-too" campaign of 1948 was an extension of the New York strategy to the national scene. Brownell has now reached out from his middle position...
...Dred Scott case (reversed by the Civil War) was more important than the school segregation issue. None of them directly and intimately affected so many American families. The lives and values of some 12 million schoolchildren in 21 states* will be altered, and with them eventually the whole social pattern of the South (see EDUCATION). The international effect may be scarcely less important. In many countries, where U.S. prestige and leadership have been damaged by the fact of U.S. segregation, it will come as a timely reassertion of the basic American principle that "all men are created equal...
...which finally, and under protest, the region . . . accepted the prevailing standards of the nation at large as the legal basis for its relationship with its minority race. This would not in itself bring about any great shift in Southern attitudes, nor even any far-reaching immediate changes in the pattern of bi-racial education. But it would redefine the goal the Southern people, white and Negro, are committed to seek in the way of democracy...
...McCarthy's national popularity, they too, it turns out, were the result of a deliberate decision by the White House. It is impossible to view this string of events without concluding, to borrow a favorite expression from Red-hunters themselves, that they were "all part of a planned pattern of operations, delibrately calculated" to break the Senator from Wisconsin...