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...first session of the U.S. Congress, in 1789, the members of the House and Senate set their own pay at $6 for each day they were present. Since then, from time to time, Congressmen have nudged the figure upward. Last week the 84th Congress, armed with the recommendations of a citizens' commission, gave itself a raise of 50%, from $15,000 to $22,500 a year...
Indiana's Governor Craig has been praised by Dwight Eisenhower as one of the younger (he's 45) Republican officeholders who should be pushed upward and forward in the Eisenhower-led G.O.P. In pointing to men like Craig as the coming leaders of the party, the President has recognized a key fact of political life in the U.S.: much of the government and most of the politics sprout and grow in the states; what happens in the 48 capitals has a determining effect on the caliber of men who appear in national politics and on the quality...
Question: Why Not? Until George Craig came along in 1952, Bill Jenner was the kingpin in the Indiana Republican Party for nearly eight years. To get and hold control, Jenner had spent more than 20 years shouting and shoving his way upward, through the state senate, into the state chairmanship of his party and on to the U.S. Senate. Then Craig burst upon the Jenner forces as a past national commander (1949-50) of the American Legion, and slipped past the old G.O.P. powers to win the Republican nomination for governor. Elected in a landslide...
...similes a work whose verbal abundance begets theatrical poverty. Brief scenes excepted, the play is most interesting where philosophically it is least so: in the first act where the situation is forged, where there is some of the clang of cloak-and-sword drama, where the words still fly upward. Thereafter, when they attempt to go inward, they suggest not a scalpel but an embroidery needle. Moreover, Fry is so unsimple with language that he can never really be complex about people. His deserter who sees himself "reduced to one dimension," has nowhere been raised to even two. Indeed...
...across the board, the profit charts showed an upward curve. Radio Corp. of America boosted its fourth-quarter earnings to $12,968,000, a fat 31% above last year. For the full year, R.C.A. earned $41 million (v. 1953's $35 million). Eastman Kodak Co. pushed its last-quarter profits up more than 50%, to $23 million, closed the year with earnings of $3.99 a share (v. $2.86 for 1953). Even the cancer-scared tobacco industry moved up. R. J. Reynolds (Camels) sent its fourth-quarter profits...