Word: fulbrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fulbright: "Yale University...
...Fulbright: "Where is that...
...Chairman (Senator Fulbright): "Where did you go to school, Mr. Orrick...
...four were Roman Catholic priests, one of whom bore shackle marks. There was also Walter A. Rickett, 34, of Seattle, alumnus of the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania, who had been a Marine Corps intelligence officer on Iwo Jima. Richett had gone to China as a Fulbright scholar in 1948, and since July 1951, he had been in jail for "espionage." After meeting Walter Rickett in Hong Kong, TIME Senior Editor John Osborne cabled...
...Though Fulbright argued long and loud that his was to be "a friendly study," businessmen were not convinced. The stock market tumbled: in the first eight days of the Fulbright probe the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 28 points. Instead of easing up, Fulbright shifted his attack, e.g., he sharply questioned General Motors President Harlow Curtice about competition in the auto industry, suggested that G.M. could cut prices if it wanted to. His line of questioning soon drew a rebuke from Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, who flatly accused Fulbright of having no intention "to investigate the stock...