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...items where tariff rates exceed 50% of the goods' value, give the President power to cut tariffs back to 50%, over a three-year period. This would encourage imports of such foreign specialties as toys and scientific instruments...
...Administration. It takes a long time to get an amendment passed, and the Bricker amendment, he was quite sure, would not affect the next three years. He was making his fight out of his belief and concern for what is good for the future of the U.S. The three-year reference inspired the United Press' alert political reporter, John Cutter, later in the conference, to ask if that meant that Ike was announcing himself as a one-term President. Ike grinned, flushed and ducked. That, he said with considerable embarrassment, was one subject he never should talk about...
...Army ordered the discharge of 20,000 "professional privates" who 1) scored 14 or less (out of a possible 100) on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, 2) served a full three-year enlistment or more without getting to be corporals or better, 3) were never decorated or wounded in combat. Early last month, the Navy issued a ban against re-enlistment of men considered incapable of climbing to petty officer third class...
...Reeves, 80, an appointee of Warren G. Harding who sat at the trial of Kansas City Politico Tom Pendergast (income tax evasion) and who last November passed death sentences on the Greenlease kidnapers; New York's Vincent L. Leibell, 70, an F.D.R. appointee who last year handed a three-year perjury sentence to William W. Remington, former government economist who had denied Communist ties...
...Communist Robert G. Thompson, who hid out in the California mountains for two years, dodging a three-year sentence for conspiracy, got a stiff penalty for playing hooky. A U.S. district court judge found him guilty of contempt, tacked another four years onto his stretch...