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Carnahan announced the election procedure for the eight committeemen from the Class of 1951 who will supervise the revival of the pre-war Freshman celebration, to take place February 27. Tomorrow, nominating petitions will be circulated among the Freshmen at the Union dining hall and must bear a total of thirty signatures before they are submitted to the Secretary of the Union on December...
These points were for ERP, the long-term program. Once again Marshall pressed upon the congressional committeemen the Administration's plea that ERP should not stand in the way of the stopgap program for France, Italy and Austria. His latest figure for it: $597 million. "The urgency of the situation is so great that I recommend that no new agency be set up to handle this interim program...
...Chairman Thomas' gavel whacked the table, a four-day parade of witnesses trooped to the stand. These were not publicity-seekers or Citizen Fix-Its; they were definitely recalcitrant. They wrangled angrily with the un-American Activities committeemen and were ordered down again. The witnesses followed a well-organized, prearranged plan...
...Senator J. Howard McGrath, the New-Dealish Rhode Islander who had been Harry Truman's personal choice to run his campaign (TIME, Oct. 6). McGrath had no sooner taken over the chair from ailing Bob Hannegan than he had a chance to demonstrate his ability to duck. The committeemen had prepared a resolution condemning almost in toto the work of the 80th Congress. McGrath spiked the resolution before it came to a vote. He remembered that many a Democrat had voted for Republican-sponsored measures, among them the Taft-Hartley labor law. He reminded his fellow Democrats that, when...
...Committeemen added that they would lend support to all groups "who have joined or will join the Wallace movement...