Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could cut spending, and get the unbalanced budget back into balance. This was tempting, but a cut in the really fleshy parts of the U.S. budget-the multibillion-dollar defense and foreign spending programs-might ultimately cost more than it saved...
Impatient with the State Department's attitude (definable as doing nothing and trying to be proud of it), New Jersey's conscientious Senator H. Alexander Smith, one of the strongest Republican supporters of the bipartisan foreign policy, had boarded a troop ship last September and sailed for Yokohama. He conferred with Douglas MacArthur and spent three weeks (at his own expense) in eastern Asia. Last week he made public his recommendations, which had at least the merit of being a positive attempt to deal with a tragic situation while it could still be dealt with...
...most spectacular performer of the season, he was not alone. The fall of 1949 produced a full flowering of the congressional junket. With EGA, D.P. camps, trade barriers, military installations and the Folies-Bergere all to be inspected, almost any standing committee could dip into the public purse for foreign travel. A great many...
Debaters Donald A. Gianolla '51 and Alexandro Lichanco '51' successfully defended the negative yesterday afternoon against the Georgetown School of Foreign Service on the topic: "Resolved, That the basic non-agricultural industries in the United States should be nationalized...
...United States is trying to make room for a capitalist Germany where there is no room," stated Joseph Starobin, foreign editor of the Daily Worker at a meeting of the John Reed Society last night...