Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record. Patiently Nourse replied by letter-also for the record. Increasingly Nourse dissented from Harry Truman's economic views; consistently Keyserling agreed with them, supported them. Finally Nourse wrote his resignation, remarking to a friend after the President's 1949 Economic Report to Congress: "I'm too old for such nonsense. I haven't many years left and I ought to live them out honestly...
Last week the President also: <| Nominated two prominent Democratic job-hunters to $15,000-a-year jobs: Washington's former Governor Mon C. Wall-gren, an amiable, poker-playing crony, to the Federal Power Commission, and New York's former Senator James M. Mead to the Federal Trade Commission. The Senate quickly confirmed them both, ^f Appointed Richard Feeney, 5, son of a White House employee, as an official White House squirrel feeder-providing i) the boy draws no pay, and 2) furnishes his own peanuts...
...said he could or could not achieve, Harry Truman had won quite a bit, though it was not nearly as much as he had asked or as he had promised to get. Said he, perhaps mindful of the do-nothing days of early summer: "You know, I'm happy about the record of Congress. It accomplished more than I expected...
...could do. By the narrowest margin in French parliamentary history, Moch had been approved by the Assembly, but he could not form a cabinet. It seemed that neither of the other two parties in the center coalition, the Radicals and Popular Republicans, wanted a Socialist premier. Then long-suffering M. Auriol called on the Radicals' René Mayer...
Middle-of-the-roader Mayer won a fairly comfortable Assembly ratification, but he also was unable to form a cabinet, largely because the Socialists resented the frustration of M. Moch. M. Auriol next wistfully beckoned to an eminent Popular Republican, Georges Bidault, first Foreign Minister of the Fourth Republic. M. Bidault would undoubtedly exert himself to the utmost, for of the three center parties the Popular Republicans have the sharpest fear of parliamentary dissolution and new elections (the Popular Republicans anticipate wholesale defections to the Gaullists). By a majority vote the deputies could bring about dissolution at any time...