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Harry Truman replied, at his press conference, that hardly a week goes by that that very matter is not brought up at the U.N., at his suggestion. As for the Vandenberg proposal: he didn't think it necessary or advisable. Two hours later, broad-shouldered Brien McMahon of Connecticut rose to speak in the Senate. No scientist (he was a wealthy trial lawyer, and a New Deal officeholder before being elected to the Senate), he had been shocked into grave concern during long, secret sessions of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy over which he had presided...
Sign of Weakness. When McMahon sat down, colleagues rushed over to pump his hand, largely perhaps because he had reflected the general urge to do something, or at least to propose a plan to do something...
Thus, concludes Professor McMahon, Oxford grew and flourished, even at a time "when feudal wars had drained a great part of England's wealth...
...report to make U.S. college and university fund raisers sit up with a snap. Education Professor Clara P. McMahon of the Johns Hopkins University had done a little digging in 15th Century fund-raising tactics at Oxford, found 20th Century techniques "pale in comparison." In an article in School and Society she told how it used to be done...
Then came the cajolery. "For example," reported Professor McMahon, "the Bishop of London read that his name would be associated with the building of the divinity school as Solomon's name was with the temple at Jerusalem . . . The Black Monks were . . . flatteringly, if untruthfully, told that 'in fact, the University owes its foundation...