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...other words, it was a federal handout with no strings attached, and practically everybody was for it. Among its backers were Walter Lippmann, General Eisenhower, Drew Pearson, President Conant, and Walt Disney. But House Speaker Joe Martin thought it would cost too much, and with the assistance of some similarly disposed Representatives, was able to keep the Taft bill from ever reaching the floor of the House...
Reston then singled out Dewey's charge that "Republican statesmanship" had saved EGA from being "just another foreign-relief handout." Said Reston: "Secretary Marshall's speech at Harvard, announcing the ERP, emphasized that the United States could not go further until the European nations themselves got together and defined and devised a program that would bring about the recovery of Europe...
...Handout. In Le Mars, Iowa, Millionaire Herman Schultz announced that he wanted to give away most of his fortune, unwittingly started the ball rolling with a $124,341 donation to burglars...
...dressmakers tried hard to turn out eye-catching eccentricities. Dior showed knee-length gaiters (see cut). A Schiaparelli handout gushed: "What could be more heartening to a world in crisis than a face veil tumbled over with roses?" Another Schiaparelli heartener: fire-engine red stockings shouting out from under petticoats that hung six inches below dress hems. Jacques Fath had his own private eccentricity; he slit his narrow skirts up the rear, to a point well above the back of the knees. From the bow, one of his bridal dresses looked as sleek as a racing sloop. Viewed from...
...want to read about the ins and outs of the local V.A., the progress of veterans legislation at the State House and in Washington, you will not find it in the CRIMSON. When the Massachusetts legislature has bills under consideration affecting the universities, the CRIMSON will use a handout now and then, but there is no real drive to get the story and spread it. In this university world of ideas, debates are held, discussions attracting a thousand or more auditors, with scores unable to get it; the CRIMSON may permit itself two or three paragraphs of space for coverage...