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Chafee also testified concerning the ad- visability of the bill which has now become law: "Its enactment would disasterously impair our influence over other freedom-loving peoples. If we leave aside military considerations, the best way to combat the spread of Communism in Western Europe and elsewhere is to give increased drawing-power to the great traditions of democracy and freedom. These war-torn countries want more than weapons, more than food and machinery. They are eager for ideals to strengthen the spirit and make life worth living ... Unless our acts show that we belive in our democratic ideals...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: Teachers Call Anti-Communist Law Unwise, Unneeded, and Unworkable | 9/26/1950 | See Source »

...music-writing King Phumiphon finally sold five royal compositions (Dream of Love, Falling Rain, 'Tis Sundown, Blue Night and an instrumental interlude) to Michael Todd's Peep Show, a Broadway musical now in production. At first fearful that having part in a Broadway show might impair his royal dignity, Phumiphon was won over when Todd pointed out that Margaret Truman is also a professional musician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Speaking Up | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Phillips explained that his membership in the Communist Party does not impair his objective. Early in 1949 he was fired form the University of Washington for membership in the Communist Party per se. Phillips reviewed the details of his dismissal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phillips Restates Communist View | 3/24/1950 | See Source »

Last week Hargrave, 51, produced a long and weighty report to show that countless industrial workers have hearing defects, and that many result from noisy working conditions. Such defects, Hargrave argues, reduce efficiency, impair health and affect the workers' home life. The source of his data: 2,549 workers at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard (now closed) whose cornmandant had invited Hargrave to make the study. Amid the clang of steel, the rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers and riveting machines, Earman Hargrave interviewed man after man. Some of his findings: ¶| Even the hard of hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quiet, Please! | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...health-and its pocketbook. There was a situation which needed to be remedied. There was no doubt that with its technical and financial resources and social resourcefulness, the U.S. could find a sound remedy. But the hasty enactment of unworkable legislation, creating an unwieldy bureaucracy, was more likely to impair than improve the nation's health. Such a cure would be worse than the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Price of Health: Two Ways to Pay It | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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