70 Year Magazine Archive

For the Record

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An informed source has disclosed that Attorney-General Brownell plans to run against Averell Harriman in the 1958 New York gubernatorial election and that Congressman Adam Clayton Powell will try to swing the Negro vote to him. … Senator Estes Kefauver’s attendance record in the Senate—particularly when bills are up which affect Tennessee—has dramatically improved since word got out that Governor Frank Clement has chosen to run against him in 1960 rather than against Senator Albert Gore in 1958….When, next September, Rep. Samuel McConnell resigns from Congress, Rep. Ralph Gwinn—long under fire from the AFL-CIO—will become the ranking Republican member of, the House Labor Committee.

Weather and the soil bank program will depress crop production to the lowest level since 1951. Prices average 3 per cent higher than this time last year, but the low volume of marketing may bar a significant increase in farm income….The Small Business Administration more than doubled its business loan activity in the first ten months of fiscal 1957…. Though production remains high, retail sales fell 5 per cent from May to June—3 per cent more than the regular seasonal decline.

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