In “income-tax period” (the first fifteen days of April) personal loan companies reported loan requests were up 10 per cent over last year… Renewed pressure on Congress to cut taxes has cut the possibility of federal grants this year for new medical schools and of enactment of the huge Frying Pan Arkansas Power and Irrigation project in Colorado…. Senator Knowland still doubts taxes can be cut before January 1, but Representative Richard Simpson of the House Ways and Means Committee believes a 5 per cent slash across the board in income-tax rates on individuals and corporations is possible.
The Committee to Secure Justice for Martin Sobell (recently cited by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee as one of the most active Communist fronts) is peddling a thirty-minute movie entitled “Was Justice Done” re the Rosenberg-Sobell trial…. Norman Thomas is in the forefront of the propaganda campaign to bar Spain’s admission to NATO on the grounds that it would give representation “only to Franco and not to the Spanish people.”




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