Word: groups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economy drive died with it. In passing the military bill the Senate did bravely lop about $1 billion off the House's bill (providing for a 48-group instead of the House's 58-group Air Force). A few money bills, including foreign military aid, remained for the Senate to work on and there might be some further whittling when House and Senate conferees got together to settle on final sums. But there was little chance that any important cuts would be made...
...diehards of the Far Eastern Division, led by Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, W. Walton Butterworth (whose May appointment has not yet been confirmed in the Senate), will not budge from their static "wait-until-the-dust-settles" strategy. But a dissenting group, led by Director George Kennan, the Department's policy-planning troubleshooter, is demanding some attempt, however limited, to regain the initiative for the U.S. after its catastrophic failure in the Orient...
...pact almost singlehanded to the Canadian people. Wherever he went he explained the pact in his customary ABC style of public speaking. He never missed a bet. "If we [all the people in the world] loved one another," he said last Christmas Eve when distributing gifts among a group of Quebec orphans, "there would be no need of an Atlantic pact...
...Liberal Party policy, which launched such welfare-state schemes as baby bonuses, government grain-marketing and producer subsidies. St. Laurent has already indicated he may not. He once said publicly that "no government of which I am a member will ever subsidize housing." During the election, when a group of Prince Edward Island fish canners came to ask for a subsidy, St. Laurent shocked his political advisers by turning them down flat. Said he: "I have no intention of using public funds to buy up fish...
What should a student get out of college? Most people think that the liberal arts may be fine for their daughters, but that a son's education should be weighted toward training him "for a particular occupation or profession"-with the liberal arts secondary. One group who are inclined to reverse the order: college graduates themselves. But even with them, the liberal arts have no runaway; 44% of the grads prefer a liberal arts emphasis, 38% are for technical and professional emphasis, and 18% say "it depends" or have no opinion...