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...House, Arkansas' James William Fulbright introduced a resolution to put Congress on record in favor of international agreements guaranteeing the world press and radio the right to write, transmit and publish news without governmental or private interference, and at uniform communication rates...
...Enter Fulbright. Last spring she bought a new straw hat and headed back to her home town of Jonesboro for her third try. But this time she faced four opponents, among them Congressman James William Fulbright, who is young (39), well-educated (a Rhodes scholar, he was president of the University of Arkansas from 1939 to 1941), handsome, well-to-do and as friendly as an Arkansas hound pup. Two years ago Bill Fulbright shook hands into Congress by "visiting" with practically everybody in a ten-county Ozark mountain district...
Freshmen Congressmen rarely make a national name except by eccentricity. But Fulbright made Congressional history by writing and getting passed a one-sentence resolution. This, now famed as the Fulbright Resolution, served as a basis for the Republican Mackinac resolution, put the House on record against isolation and prodded the Senate into a similar stand, and thus prepared the way for the Moscow Agreement (TIME...
...Arkansas primary last week Congressman Fulbright led with over 60,000 votes-14,000 more than his nearest opponent, two-time Governor Homer Adkins. This was not quite enough to give him a majority over all his four opponents. To win the Democratic nomination-and, with it, sure election-he still must beat the potent Adkins machine, perhaps reinforced by support from defeated candidates, in the runoff primary next week. But the political career of Hattie Caraway, who ran a bad fourth, was over...
...State Department almost made a gaffe last week. Five scholarly gentlemen were about to fly to London as U.S. delegates to an Allied conference on postwar education. They were: Arkansas Congressman James William Fulbright, former president of the University of Arkansas; Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish; U.S. Education Commissioner John Ward Studebaker; the State Department's Grayson Neikirk Kefauver; and Ralph Edmond Turner...