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State Secretary George Marshall had demanded and gotten a special, closed-doors session of the Senate's Appropriations Committee. He wanted another $3 million tacked on to the $13 million just authorized for State's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs. But the committeemen listened impatiently to his argument that OIC and its "Voice of America" needed more money. They had an old argument of their own to bring...
...soon as Marshall had finished, the committeemen began. If State wanted to meet Communist propaganda, why didn't it kick out the Communists on its own payroll? One of the members read off a list of Department employees who were under direct FBI suspicion, but who had not yet been fired. They brought up the name of a secretary with access to confidential memoranda, who had been hobnobbing with local Reds and the Soviet Embassy staff for months. State's only action, they said, had been to call in the secretary, ask her if she was a Communist...
...into the state committee's bank account. But it left some serious political gas pains. In an effort to by-pass the imponderables of intraparty protocol, the state committee had selected a dais long enough only to seat the guest of honor, three Cabinet members, four state party committeemen, and sundry divines. Seated on the indiscriminate floor were such party stalwarts as Jim Farley, ex-Senator James Mead, the party's 1946 candidate for governor, ex-Governor Herbert Lehman, 1946 candidate for senator...
Joining David M. Little '18, House Master and Secretary to the University, faculty members, and guests at the main table will be Adams House committeemen, elected in recent Gold Coast ballot...
Union rules, parietal regulations; and local hostelries re buttressed to meet the expected impact of the festive weekend; and Jubilee committeemen, almost (but never quite) buried in their own ballyhoo, are bubbling in anticipation of the opening gong...