Word: facet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, the committee sheepishly backed down. Michigan's Homer Ferguson introduced the resolution which Anderson had suggested, and both Houses quickly passed it. The tenet that Congress has the right to inquire into any facet of U.S. life was upheld-so long as the inquiry conformed to law and reflected the will of Congress. This week Clint Anderson went to work preparing his list for publication. It would, he said, contain 'about 14,000 names...
...form, the polls will be five or six questions in length, each dealing with a separate facet of the same general subject. Both multiple choice and single-answer types of questions will be used in the testing...
...remains a question, though, whether getting tough in this way will remove the hope of attaining international cooperation. If a stiffer attitude towards Russia appears to be justified, the Taft proposal for withdrawing the Baruch plan raises the problem of how tough to get. The removal of such a facet of international organization as atomic energy seems in effect a pocket-veto by the United States of world cooperation. Unqualified use of the toughness policy may result in the destruction of the United Nations pattern...
...least had the comfort of knowing who was and who was not a CP member, and could with some acuity predicate their course of action on this knowledge. The proposal to outlaw the Communist Party would only make it increasingly difficult--or impossible--to deal with this most difficult facet of the problem...
...result from the tragi-comedy of errors which led to the separation of Henry Wallace from the Cabinet of President Truman. Despite the regrettable embarrasment suffered by the President and the State Department, the Wallace-Truman rift offers an excellent opportunity for a re-examination of the most important facet of a rapidly crystalizing American foreign policy...