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When Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright casually told a reporter last January that the Senate Banking and Currency Committee might look into the booming stock market, he got a rude jolt. As the news hit the wires, stock prices were falling. Hurriedly, the Senator, scared by the political effect of a market break, called in the press. What he had in mind, said Fulbright, was no punitive probe like the 1932-34 Pecora investigation (when a circus pressagent popped a midget on J. P. Morgan's knee). Instead, Fulbright was planning "a friendly study...
Though a number of brokers felt Galbraith's remarks caused the decline, Committee Chairman William J. Fulbright, Senator from Arkansas, said the drop "has no connection whatever with the study being made by this committee...
...Poggioli's teaching activities since then have not been limited to Harvard. Last year he won a Fulbright Scholarships and took a leave of absence to lecture at his alma mater in Florence. Just to keep busy, he also made a lecture junket throughout Italy under the auspices of the U.S. Information Office, and in his spare time he translated the Igor Tale, an old Russian epic, into Italian...
...Rickett, who was studying in China on a Fulbright Scholarship, was imprisoned with her husband on the same charges as Bersohn. Her husband is still in the Peiping Prison...
...This will be a friendly investigation," Fulbright insisted, "and should be distinguished from most recent Congressional probes...