Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators shifted uneasily. Like the Westchester delegates, the Senate had a petition of its own, signed by 57 Senators of both parties. It urged passage of a resolution to direct the President to cut 5 to 10% off appropriations finally voted by Congress. But such a let-Harry-do-it approach was just what ex-Mayor McLaughlin was talking about. Despite all the loud congressional forensics, Congress seemed unwilling or unable to practice what it preached. It had no help from the President, who had called for a record budget (see box), though traditionally it is his responsibility to preserve...
Except for Roman Catholic opposition on the detail of birth control information, the report was received last week with general acclaim in Britain. It has cleared the air of alarmist thinking, avoided absurd excesses of "population planning" (see cut) and made a start toward public policy on a problem that faces many nations-how to induce the more intelligent groups to have enough children to reproduce themselves...
...Telegram, in the midst of a circulation war with the Star, followed the same pattern-cut to Tory cloth. It forgot Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent when, in French-speaking Montreal, he got the best reception of his campaign. When St. Laurent visited Toronto, the Tely's front page carried not a word of his speech. Instead, it ran an interview with a St. Laurent heckler and a picture of him shouting "Phooey...
...death mask of Christian Berard was far less cluttered and, for all its quiet horror, easier to take. It showed the smiling corpse of the Paris fashion arbiter elaborately bibbed in preparation for the mold maker, who sat, dabbling in a bowl of plaster, by the deathbed (see cut...
While he was in charge of the observatory's station in Arequipa, Peru, Campbell began intensive work with amateur astronomers. Cut off from the rest of the world, he began to correspond with observers all over the U.S. Today, as permanent recording secretary for the American Association of Variable Star Observers, Campbell receives some 3,000 reports on observations a month from the 250 members in all parts of the world. In the past 37 years he has collected and plotted nearly 1,150,000 such reports...