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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No conscientious Congressman would cosset Communists, much less give them handouts of U.S. money. With a roar of pain and surprise Congress learned last week that the Atomic Energy Commission had done just that, in dealing out fellowships for study in advanced physics and other scientific fields.
The Potsdam conferees had decided that German assets in Eastern Austria could be seized by Russia for reparations. For two years, the Deputies of the Big Four Foreign Ministers have been deadlocked on the question of precisely what constitutes German assets; the Russians, for example, include in their definition properties...
With Josiah Holbrook's example in mind, 28 well-known U.S. men & women had started a new organization called the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools. Some of the problems with which the commission will concern itself, and try to concern others, are overcrowded classrooms, the shortage of...
The Commission is now considering a request made Monday by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators AFL, that use of high school auditoriums be refused to "professional or commercial groups" unless union men are employed to handle stage productions or motion picture shows.
The ruling now before the School Commission cannot affect the possibility of the HDC's using the Rindge stage. Seaver said, since either the three-day limit or the difficulty of filling the vast auditorium for an ordinary college production alone places it out of the Club's reach.