Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington debated: what to do? With almost monolithic stubbornness, Harry Truman still insisted that the thing to do was to boost taxes $4 billion. Apparently almost no one in Congress agreed with him. The most notable dissent last week came from a New Dealing liberal, Illinois' greying freshman Senator Paul Douglas, onetime professor of economics...
...Harry Truman was willing enough to purge some Congressmen if he could. He had failed in his all-out attempt to repeal the Taft-Hartley act because too many Democrats had voted against it. His legislative leaders were dejectedly advising compromise. Labor leaders came in to commiserate and to counsel...
Then A.F.L.'s President William Green stomped in to tell the President that A.F.L. would be willing to take a new Taft-Hartley substitute-the Sims bill-with some changes. He came out of the White House shaking his head: "We're willing to give a few inches, but he's not budging...
...Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper angrily added a report of another case. It involved a science scholarship with a $3,600 stipend, but he did not identify the student. Iowa's Hickenlooper wanted to know why no loyalty check had been made of fellowship recipients. An answer of sorts came from Princeton's Dr. Henry DeWolf Smyth, up before the committee for confirmation as a $15,000-a-year member of AEC. "These men," said Dr. Smyth, "have no access to secret material." He thought that the best potential scientists had "an inquisitive turn of mind" and were...
International UNESCO day, New England branch, came to roost in Sanders Theater last night as the United Nations Council played host for the finale of the local celebration...