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Director Willett also defended Young, said he believed Young's version of the Texmass story. "Senator," he went on, "we hear about things like that almost every day. What do you want me to do about it?" Subcommittee Chairman J. William Fulbright glared at the witness. "Then the situation is much worse than I thought," he snapped. "It is' shocking...
...President. Up to that point, the Senators were having it all their own way. They had already succeeded in forcing the President to reconsider his renominations of the five RFC directors for new terms, and to make a proposal-recommended earlier by Fulbright's subcommittee-to run RFC through a single administrator (TIME...
...Most TV shows are reported in the inside pages of U.S. newspapers, if they are reported at all. But not Meet the Press (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC-TV). Its interview this week with Senator J. William Fulbright, airing charges of "illegal influence" exerted on the RFC, made the front page of the New York Times. Three weeks out of four last month, the show captured equal news prominence. The London Times has called Meet the Press "one of the most reliable breeding-grounds of weekend news...
...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...
...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...