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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accompanying bill, $1,093,450,000 was allotted to the pact countries-$938,450,000 in military equipment and technical assistance (half to come from surplus stocks) and $155 million in materials and machinery to help Europe's own arms production. Another $300,580,000 would go for military help to Greece, Turkey, Korea, Persia and the Philippines...
...witness had been called for just one purpose - to answer, on behalf of other Negroes, Party-Liner Paul Robeson's assertion that the 15 million U.S. Negroes would never fight in a war against Soviet Russia. But, as many a big-league pitcher could have told the committee, Jack Roosevelt Robinson, organized baseball's first Negro and the National League's leading batter, was never a guy to bunt a fat pitch with the bases loaded. Testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Jackie Robinson quickly dismissed Robeson's statement as "silly." But there...
...Barden bill provided $300 million in federal funds for U.S. education, but unlike the education bill already passed by the Senate, specifically excluded private and parochial schools from its benefits. The Barden bill was limited strictly to such direct education aid as textbooks, teachers' salaries, equipment. It did not provide for anyone the milk, bus transportation and medicine which Cardinal
Frank Murphy was mayor of Detroit during the depression, when some 50,000 Detroit families were virtually pauperized. He opened closed auto plants as dormitories, handed out almost $30 million in relief, saving enough on the operating costs of his administration to pay for the program...
...C.I.O., fed up with fighting the Communist line in the W.F.T.U., quit it cold. Representatives of 36 nations met last month in Geneva to set up an anti-Communist international labor organization. The C.I.O. attended-and so did the A.F.L. The new organization will speak for some 42 million anti-Communist trade union members. It will not speak for Harry Bridges...