Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, Georgia's Representative Eugene Cox, chairman of a House committee investigating tax-free foundations, charged that the Rockefeller Foundation had made "a great number of grants" to persons disloyal to the U.S. One of the witnesses, Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, former chancellor of the University of Chicago and now a Ford Foundation associate director, replied: "I am perfectly certain that no major foundation has ever consciously gone into anything that would weaken the American system." He then gave the committee a little lecture on the nature of academic freedom: "Education is a kind of continuing dialogue...
...Cox and other WSB members had previously said that to grant more than $1.50 would "irreparably" damage the whole stabilization program and result in substantial inflationary repercussions...
Despite this promotion, the board was unable to function because of a boycott by its six industry members, who had sided with Cox and the five other public members in urging that the increase be held to $1.50 as an anti-inflationary measure. The board handled the case until Tuesday...
...Cox, who left the Law School last August to take over as Wage head, refused to comment on his resignation last night when contacted by the CRIMSON, although he did indicate he would return to his teaching post this spring...
Truman appointed Cox to the wage job last August, soon after Congress, angered with WSB handling of the steel dispute, had stripped the board of much of its powers. The coal case was by far the most important Cox had handled in his three month term...