Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generalized intentions which Franklin Roosevelt called the New Deal. It was no longer radical-it had been accepted for 16 years. As far as the Democratic Party was concerned it was the new orthodoxy, and Harry Truman, no original thinker but a man tempered with Missouri caution, was orthodox clear through...
...Ridge (Tenn.) Institute of Nuclear Studies, a position in which he was to be given access to confidential U.S. military information. The Security Office of the Atomic Energy Commission took one look at Frank Graham's FBI file, thicker than a metropolitan telephone book, and refused to clear him for access to atomic information. Then the AEC made its own investigation. Last week, it cleared Graham. It was true, the commission conceded, that Graham, in espousing liberal causes, had at times been associated with persons and organizations "influenced by motives or views of Communist derivation." But the commission concluded...
...himself the commission is actually concerned with, that the associations are only evidentiary,* and that common sense must be exercised in judging their significance . . . The specific purposes for which he [Graham] had these associations were in keeping with American traditions and principles. Moreover, from the entire record it is clear in Dr. Graham's case that such associations have neither impaired his integrity and independence, nor aroused in him the slightest sympathy for Communism or other anti-democratic or subversive doctrines...
...Exchange will run a half-million-dollar advertising campaign next year to try to clear up "the unfamiliarity among savers, particularly in the labor and farm groups, with corporate securities." The Exchange will plug stock purchases as a regular part of the family saving program. The specific target: earners of $5,000 a year or less. Said one hopeful Stock Exchange member: they "constitute the hope of the financial community...
...which was cutting into the line's Mediterranean tourist traffic. As American Export still has a 20% interest in American Overseas, it can wage a strong fight against the merger. American Export's Vice President John Slater has already resigned as chairman of American Overseas to clear his decks for action...