Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration's $1,353,000,000 bill for foreign aid. The various expenditures which it included had all been authorized. But Congress still had to appropriate the money, and John Taber was going to finger every dollar. He denounced the bill; he tilted furiously at the "Marshall approach," which he claimed even Marshall could not explain. He likened U.S. efforts in Europe to "a ward heeler trying to catch the floaters with a $5 bill...
...committees to study Europe's needs and resources under the "Marshall approach" got down to work this week in the Grand Palais, one of the few really ugly buildings in the center of Paris. They shared the vast, rambling premises with an international exhibition on town planning and an exhibition on popular science. Despite border guards, town planners and scientists now & then strayed into the domains of the diplomats. Guillaume Schneiter, a frail sexagenarian who described himself as a professional inventor, was one of the trespassers. Hugging a pile of documents, he appeared in the delegates' improvised...
Quite Simple. Last week, it looked as though many Europeans were far ahead of their own leaders in understanding that it was more important to make the "Marshall approach" work than to keep Germany down or to keep somebody's schemes from getting hurt...
...easy to poke ridicule at Mr. White's book. His approach is by no means scholarly, and the informal, unscientific little polls on which he bases his conclusions as to the state of German opinion suffer by his own admission that, "It is particularly difficult for an American now to discover what Germans really think...
Absolutely Topnotch. It all began in 1943, when dynamic Parson Walter Hussey, 38, was planning jubilee celebrations for his church's 50th anniversary. Says he: "I decided we'd have really absolutely topnotch performances of music and art -so why not approach the people at the very top of the tree? They could only refuse, and that wouldn't hurt me." When his father, Canon Hussey, who had been St. Matthew's first vicar, offered to make a jubilee presentation to the church, Hussey hurried off to see Sculptor Moore, whose smooth, tiny-headed figures...