Word: jointly
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Senators, led by New Jersey's Clifford Case (but not including Minority Leader William Knowland), issued a joint statement applauding the plan. From his Bethesda hospital bed Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was quick to send a ringing endorsement. "The President's proposal," he said, "is the daring, imaginative stroke for which a war-weary world has been waiting. It will test the good faith of the Communists and separate the warmongers from the peacemakers. The American people yearn for peace-peace that will maintain their traditional freedoms . . . This proposal is our pledge of sincerity and good faith...
Last week the President also: ¶ Chided the Congress for its $140 million cut in Atomic Energy Commission funds, which the President said would disrupt work on atomic weapons and impede the development of nuclear propulsion and peaceful uses of atomic energy. Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, Joint Atomic Energy Committee chairman, agreed that "the cuts did go too far," called a meeting of his committee to consider reinstating the AEC funds...
...week, the Pentagon stars, including Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, faced the expert questioning of Georgia's Senator Richard Russell on the Senate's Reserve bill. There was haggling between the Pentagon, the Senate and the House of Representatives on the technical details. But at week's end it seemed probable that the U.S. would soon get a law providing for a "ready reserve" of about...
...Atomic Energy Commission. Whitfield, an attorney and Republican leader of Des Moines. had been under fire from Democrats for his handling of an estate trusteeship before and during World War II. He said he could not answer a set of 24 questions from Senator Clinton Anderson, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, without violating confidential relations with his clients...
...Clemens Brentano, but by Heinrich Heine . . . When the Nazis came to power, they felt they had to "appropriate" it for the Nordic race. They omitted the name of the Jew Heine and just called it "a folksong." Clemens Brentano, however, has one real claim to fame: he was the joint editor of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, one of the most important folksong collections in the history of German literature...