Word: group
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were a strange group who found it hard to agree. As far as Nourse was concerned, the job was to report the economic terrain exactly as he saw it. As far as Keyserling was concerned, the job was to report the scene so that it fitted into the political philosophy of Harry Truman's Democratic Party. Between those two points of view, Clark wavered back & forth. In the beginning, Nourse's view of the CEA as an economic transit, not a political tool, generally prevailed...
...struck off the reciprocal-trade program, and the authority extended two years. The 81st also gave U.S. defense all that the President had asked-and decided that he had not asked enough. It appropriated a $15.6 billion defense budget, a record for peacetime, adding funds for an extra ten groups to the 48-group Air Force requested by the White House. It strengthened the powers of the Secretary of Defense, created a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, increased the pay of all military ranks...
...defense of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Air Force against attacks made on them by a rebellious group of Navy officers had reached its climax...
...another U.N. birthday party last week, a group of less restrained celebrators commented at length, but scarcely said any more. Just four years after the signing of the San Francisco Charter, the U.N.'s General Assembly met in special open-air session at the site of the new U.N. building at the East River foot of Manhattan's 42nd Street, to watch the cornerstone laid for U.N.'s imposing new headquarters. As President Truman arrived at the 42nd Street site, the combined New York Police, Fire & Sanitation Department bands struck up The Sidewalks of New York, better...
...sent to the Federal Penitentiary at Danbury, Conn. for using the mails to defraud. When in Washington as Congressman from the 11th District (Cambridge and Somerville). Curley had been the nominal president of the Engineer's Group, Inc., a company dedicated to the purpose of getting government contracts for small businesses. The Truman Committee, investigating the Group, caught up with the promoter James G. Fuller, a notorious confidence man. In the proceedings, it was found that Curley had accepted a $3500 check for services along the way. Therefore, in a trial in the District of Columbia, Justice James K. Prector...