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...sort of global Fair Deal that Harry Truman placed his firmest hopes for the ultimate barrier to Communist expansion. The globe shows vast areas inhabited by hundreds of millions of people who want to improve their lot, he told Krock, and this can be done with...
...another trouble spot during a troubled time, with conspicuous success. Recalled to Washington in 1948, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (i.e., propaganda chief) and took over the job of giving vigor and consistency to the quavering Voice of America. The U.S.S.R. gave him the firmest recognition of his work; it put more than 200 stations to the job of jamming the Voice, has not yet succeeded in fully muffling its programs...
...Roosevelt wrote that it looked as if the firmest resistance to Communism "was being waged by the priests and laymen of the Roman Catholic faith." She described Cardinal Mindszenty as "the center and the symbol of resistance during the Nazi occupation" and added: "There is no excuse for the action that has been taken by the [Hungarian] government." On Jan. 18 she reported the gist of a letter she had had from an editor (whom she did not name) who "claims that the Cardinal is a reactionary, if not a fascist and a notorious anti-Semite . . . Certainly," she added...
...firmest tenets in Harry Truman's personal code is that the private lives of his womenfolk should remain private. Accordingly, the President had an unhappy time of it last week when a rumor curled around Washington that daughter Margaret was about to become engaged...
Photons and Quanta. In that same year, 1905, Einstein advanced another theory which many historians of science consider even more important than Relativity. The ether was gone, and although Relativity established the velocity of light as the firmest figure in the universe, it did not supply any medium to carry the waves of light...