Word: fulbrights
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...abrupt reversal of form, proposed a reorganization of the RFC along the lines recommended by the Fulbright report (which he had called "asinine" only a few days before). The new plan would establish: 1) an independent RFC (not in the Commerce Department, as Truman had originally proposed), 2) a single RFC administrator replacing the present five-man board, 3) a statutory board of review-all urged by Fulbright...
...Truman also pitched into Arkansas' Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright and his subcommittee's report condemning White House influence in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (TIME, Feb. 12). He had spent ten years in the Senate, said Harry Truman waspishly, but he was happy to say he never wrote a report like that...
That Oxford Blank-Blank. Truman's dislike for Rhodes Scholar Fulbright was a long-standing one, dating from Fulbright's suggestion after the Republican victory in 1946 that Harry Truman should appoint a Republican Secretary of State and resign in his favor, following the English parliamentary pattern. In his private conversation, Truman has since referred to Fulbright as "that overeducated, Oxford blank-blank...
...fire. On Capitol Hill, angry Senators immediately announced that they would pursue their investigation of the RFC to the limit. This week Truman defiantly replied by renominating every one of the five RFC members. From Miami Beach Chairman Fulbright said that he left Washington not because he knew the President wanted to see him (he hadn't heard he did) but to fulfill a speaking engagement of several months' standing. "I do not wish to seem disrespectful to the President," said Fulbright, "but this statement of the President is not true...
Last week a special Senate subcommittee gave Merl the Milkman the recognition he deserved. The investigators, led by Senator Fulbright (Dem., Ark.), reported that they had found the RFC's multimillion-dollar operations ridden by "favoritism" and dominated by outsiders wielding undue influence over RFC officials. White House Aide Donald Dawson, a shrewd veteran of 18 years in Washington's bureaucratic jungle was exercising "considerable influence" over certain RFC directors and had "tried to dominate" the agency from his White House perch. But, the Senators added, "the individual named most frequently in the reports of alleged influence...