Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cabinet meeting, which got the news from President Truman just before it was handed to the newsmen, broke up after an hour-long discussion. In the Capitol, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon sat down with his Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and AEC officials behind drawn shades. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg was asked what he thought of the news. "It's the kind of thing you can't think about on a straight line until you've put it aside for 48 hours," he replied...
...Task. Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg and New York's John Foster Dulles, who had forced the Administration to trim its demand into acceptable form, met his measured argument with measured reply. "If it is properly handled, it can be the greatest economy measure which this country has ever adopted," said Dulles. "Let us not lose our perspective," Vandenberg urged. "The objective is . . . defense for the common cause, this common cause, among other things, being the defense of the United States." Old Tom Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explained: "The North Atlantic Treaty and the military...
...Smith, who was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1901, received the A.B. (1923), A.M. (1925) and M.D. (1928) from the University of Michigan. He has held teaching positions at the University of Michigan and Wayne University and is now Director of Research on the New Bern at the Boston Lying-In Hospital and Chief of The Infants' Hospital...
...segregation, the NSA formally adopted a course of action which has been used successfully at Michigan. The "Michigan Plan" prohibits campus organizations with discriminatory clauses in their charter or constitution and calls for enlightenment of already existent groups with such clauses. Regional officers will enforce this plan with the cooperation of college student government groups...
Also a symphony forum-an inexpensive series of concerts featuring leading artists, with accompanying lectures directed at non-concentrators; a lodging bureau-to line up quarters for both men and women on weekend safaris; a faculty rating system-the rating to be done by students, also successfully used at Michigan; a book re-purchasing agency-to buy and sell used texts; a human relations institute; study-travel tours; placement of DP students-seven will be placed this year; and a national art exhibit...