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...Said one top Dutch moneyman: "The plan is psychologically dangerous; because you can't force people into virtue. It's technically too difficult to administer." Dr. Johan Beyen, Dutch delegate to Bretton Woods, said Holland plans an orthodox savings drive to sop up inflationary cash, stringent wage & price controls and a retroactive 100% excess-profits tax to grab wartime profits. But most of all Holland stresses what other Governments have ignored-heavy taxes, to bring its budget under control, the step which all European countries must take sooner or later to stabilize their currency. Buying power would thus...
...daily press was subjected to a more stringent "thought control" campaign -i.e. more meticulous censorship...
Standing loftily apart from the professional revival is the United States Golf Association, conservative sponsor of the U.S. Open, the U.S. Amateur. Chicago's May boasts that after the war he will destroy tournament golf U.S.G.A.-style, with its $3.30 admission prices and its stringent definition of amateurism. Meanwhile amateurs are already stirring on their own account: in the Midwest, club tournaments have increased 100% over 1943, in New England nearly...
Stockbrokers were sternly warned last week against rumormongering. The warning came from Emil Schram, NewYork Stock Exchange's president, who fears that a speculative boom in low-priced securities might: 1) collapse and rob a lot of small investors of their savings; 2) bring demands for even more stringent Government control of the Exchange...
This is not a glorified college frat proposition, nor a Sun Valley rest camp, but we do try to temper a necessarily stringent military schedule with a portion of hospitality and good will--and the Harvard faculty and students contribute much toward making your stay here as enjoyable as possible under the circumstances...