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After six straight days on the stand, George Marshall's 70-year-old frame sagged a bit and his voice was fading. "He sounds just like I feel after I have been talking for four or five hours at a stretch," said Fulbright. The hearing record had already swollen to about 401,000 words. And there were still weeks...
...preliminary announcement of Fulbright scholarships for study abroad next year yesterday showed that 18 Harvard students have received grants so far. About twice this number of students here is expected to win Fulbrights by the time of the final announcement...
Applications are now available for next year's Fulbright awards; completed applications are due before October 15 of this year...
Boehm's testimony increased senatorial curiosity over what White House Aide Dawson might say for himself if he would only talk. Last week the Fulbright subcommittee, investigating the RFC, issued its second invitation to Dawson, and this time worded it a little more urgently. The subcommittee hoped to shame him into appearing; subpoenaing him would create a legal hubbub about legislative v. executive authority, which the Senators might lose. At week's end, Dawson, acting on the orders of Harry Truman, still had not replied to the subcommittee's request, and, furthermore gave no sign of intending...
...emphatic defender on the committee. He was Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, the very Senator who had done the most to bring to light the sorry record of favoritism and influence in RFC operations. Fulbright was convinced that a modified, well-run RFC is still vitally needed in some parts of the country, including his own home state. In such places, he argued, local banks often haven't the capital for business loans, and far-off Wall Street isn't interested in expanding small-sized industries and businesses...