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...hammer out an agreement which will give substance to Robert Schuman's bold plan for pooling Western Europe's coal and steel industries. To most of the delegates it means the practical beginning of an undertaking which in the past has been little more than an oratorical flourish: Western Europe's union. But above the hopeful voices in Paris was audible a disturbing buzz-the voice of doctrinaire Socialism...
Tonight he will discuss local gambling and its relation to the nationwide organization. He will also contend that local crime could not function in Massachusetts unless local police tacitly allowed bookies to flourish...
...minutes after walking into the "Little White House" at Key West's Naval Station, he went to work. With a flourish he signed the bill repealing federal taxes on oleomargarine-one of the Administration's few legislative successes of the year-and tackled a stack of documents which had been flown down from Washington. It was the first of a series of chores he had set for his three-week vacation; he proposed to keep in telephone contact with congressional leaders, to chip away at regular paper work, and to plan 1950 campaign strategy...
...Negro sections of town. The Chicago Tribune, responding to requests, has just banned the race tag from its ads. Newspapers have generally dropped such anti-Semitic phrases as "Restricted" or "Selected Clientele" in their ads, as well as "Gentiles Only," but such euphemisms as "Churches Nearby" still flourish...
More important, "A nation on a 30 hour week will have more opportunity to pursue a multitude of arts, from gardening to painting and writing, than any people has ever possessed. Surely the chance is good that the arts will flourish in the U.S. as never before in the history of the world...