Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever that meant, there was no mistaking Harry Truman's concern for the change in economic climate. The report made no mention of the economic storms building up in Europe, but Treasury Secretary John Snyder was already heavily engaged on the foreign front, trying to work out a way of saving Britain's dwindling dollar reserves (see INTERNATIONAL) . Back on Capitol Hill, Maryland's Millard Tydings let it be known last week that his Senate Armed Services Committee had presidential permission to whack almost a billion dollars out of the armed forces' budget...
...section you often mention the nudes that artists paint, or draw . . . "His sunny, splashy little portraits and paintings of apple trees in blossom and luminous, leggy nudes" [TIME, June...
...Administration had to stave off one crippling amendment after another. Congressman Ed Rees, a Kansas lawyer-farmer, proposed to kill all mention of low-rent housing. His amendment almost got through. A standing vote on Rees's amendment went down by one vote and Rees demanded a teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...world." The National Union of Journalists (which the weekly Economist labeled "the fifth column of the fourth estate") had been even more specific. It charged Britain's Tory press lords with operating monopolies, kowtowing to advertisers, distorting and withholding the news, and blacklisting (i.e., refusing to mention) political and personal enemies. To investigate charges of this kind, and perhaps to lay the groundwork for regulation of the press, the House of Commons voted to set up a Royal Commission on the Press...
...congratulate you on your recognition of science fiction in your review of A Martian Odyssey [TIME, May 30] ? It is seldom that an S-F book receives mention in publications not exclusively devoted to this field, even though interest in science fiction has been increasing at a rapid rate...