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...shelled out more than 87 billion dollars on foreign aid during the last twelve years (including gifts, loans and Lend-Lease), or an average of more than $7 billion a year...
Carrington, who is national vice-chairman of Students for Stevenson, called Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower a "Johnny-come-lately" in civil rights. According to Carrington, Eisenhower testified before Congress in favor of segregation in the armed forces, and refused to lend his name while president of Columbia University to a campaign to provide better job oppertunities for New York City Negroes...
...distance seems to lend enchantment to Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. When he returned from exile again last March, vivas filled the air. In June's four-candidate presidential election, he won a clear plurality: 43% of the total vote...
...alumni and surely the majority of the faculty felt as I did on the subject of intervention." Conant's stand was no matter of purely academic importance; he, Wendell Willkie, and Fiorello LaGuardia were the last three witnesses called by the Roosevelt Administration to support its position on the Lend-Lease Bill in the Spring of 1941. The bill passed, and shortly afterwards, FDR appointed Conant to establish better scientific liason with the British...
Borrowing fake pictures turned out to be a difficult task. Many collectors were too shy to lend the gold bricks they had bought. Some refused to admit owning them, others were indignant at being asked, while a number merely refused to answer letters. "For every fake in the exhibition," said one museum staffer, "there were five we couldn't get." The museum finally opened the show this June. Last week the exhibition was still pulling in curious crowds...