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Murray put in the Congressional hopper a bill to make into law their recommendations on contract termination. While the bill went over some ground already covered by Elder Statesmen Bernie Baruch and John Hancock in their standard termination clause (TIME, Jan. 17), it plugged up several big loopholes they missed. The bill would...
Baruch v. George? Last week the downtown Washington postwar planning team of Baruch & Hancock was likewise busy along the same lines, drafting its own comprehensive report on reconversion. The team is expected to recommend that a new overall agency be established to run reconversion, but that its management should be left to the Administration. In adopting the theory that the agencies that
More serious are the omissions: much slang (including John Hancock and limey), guides to pronunciation (especially for Englishmen) and often etymologies. The DAE's weakness in unprinted language may be connected with a reluctance to include unprintable language, for the great U.S. contributions to invective and bawdry are gravely slighted. The DAE's scholarly scope is enormous, and Editor Craigie recognizes the role of plain people in making speech. But in many vital respects Henry Louis Mencken, now at work on his fifth edition of The American Language, can still show the way to the professors...
Last Sunday night at the Ford Hall Forum in John Hancock Hall in Boston she related her experiences as "A Woman Diplomat in Russia." Addressing an audience of approximately 3000, she stated that the people of Poland expect America to rebuild a "real Polish democracy for a real and sound Polish populace...
...that problem Baruch and Hancock are now training their artillery. They hope to work out a plan to let the contractor shunt the equipment out immediately after his contracts are canceled. He may store it at his own risk. Other such knotty problems will be taken up in the same step-by-step fashion. The step that had been taken to unwind the U.S. war machine was a small step-but the important fact was that it had been taken...