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Scholars need Latin and Greek, and any English concentrator who plans to do intensive research in ancient periods will naturally learn these languages. But many students choose more modern times for study, and they will need sociology and economics--not Virgil and Homer. If they want honors, they are forced to spend valuable time on Latin or Greek whether they like it or not, unless their pre-college training has taken care of the requirement. But in the last decade or so, not only has the emphasis on the classics been relaxed in college preparation, but more freshmen are entering...
...Senator Homer Ferguson, Representative F. Edward Hebert, Christian Science Monitor reporter Robert L. Strout, and Allen A. Klots, all agreed that Congressional investigations are necessary, but were not unanimous in setting up a program of controls for the inquiries...
...Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan, Edward Hebert, Representative from Louisiana, Richard Lee Strout, veteran Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, and Allen T. Klots, of the American Bar Association will do the speaking. Mark De Wolfo 28, professor of Law will serve as moderator...
Indiana's ponderous Republican Homer Capehart sensed a "sinister motive" in the bill. Georgia's Democratic Walter George saw nothing sinister about it but slyly suggested: Why not tax such expense allowance? "If the tax is too burdensome," he said, "when the President asks us to raise $4 billion additional taxes, he will have a gentle reminder of what it all amounts...
Many an observer, like Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, cried that this was another "step toward socialism." It was hardly that-yet. But it was a shrewd political move designed to scare steelmen into making more steel. It also put out the welcome mat for such companies as Dallas' Lone Star Steel Co. Lone Star got its start with a $25 million war-surplus blast furnace which it bought in 1947 for $7,500,000 (TIME, April 7, 1947). Last week Lone Star's President Eugene B. Germany called on Truman to discuss an RFC loan...