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Hoffman was calling for integration at a time when the split between controlled-economy Britain and the relatively free-economy Continent was wider than ever. The French and their continental friends were still fuming over the fact that the British had devalued the pound without even consulting them (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.). They accused the U.S. of granting Britain the privileges of a specially favored nation, at the expense of Western Europe's unity. Hoffman tried to deflect some of this resentment. He was taking a crack at the British when he called upon the governments to give...
...Congress was considerably more conservative than the President. His leadership was frequently overturned on critical issues by a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats, an unstable alliance which provided no consistent leadership of its own. A Republican-Dixiecrat coalition filibustered and voted to death his civil-rights program. A wider coalition of Democrats and Republicans crushingly repudiated another major Truman election promise: repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The Senate rejected three of his personal appointees. Congress ignored his request for compulsory health insurance, refused to try the Brannan plan even as an experiment...
...problems were thrashed out in three types of meetings-15-man round tables for actual problems, e.g. discrimination in college admission policies; "commissions" for broader areas of student interest (international affairs); and "plenary" sessions for topics of an even wider scope...
...Minneapolis Exchange-the consolidated bourse would give Minneapolis floor traders 500 to deal in. They also liked keeping the whole commission for an out-of-town trade, instead of splitting it with a "correspondent" on another exchange. Businessmen also took to the idea of getting a wider market for their companies' shares; a little-known stock like St. Louis' Johnson, Stephens & Shinkle Shoe Co. could now be traded in five cities instead...
...their advertising as well as to their editorial pages. Just as the work of our world could not go on without the swift exchange of news-so would our economy grind to a halt without the swift exchange of goods and news about those goods. It is to the wider understanding of this basic truth that this 'Campaign About Advertising' is directed...