Word: msa
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...during the campaign was Harold Stassen, who had accepted the death of his own presidential chances with good grace and became a valued member of the Eisenhower strategy staff. Ike considered him for Labor or the Mutual Security Administration (foreign aid); Stassen, long deeply interested in international affairs, preferred MSA...
Since mid-September, Elmer has done his act over & over for the benefit of farmers in Italy, France and Holland, all of which are increasing their corn crop, to save import dollars. MSA figured that the farmers could raise even more if they learned to harvest in the traditional U.S. style instead of lugging each ear home to be stripped at a husking bee around the family hearth...
...defeated by a fillibuster, Ives proposed a cloture bill. Besides favoring FEPC, he has supported the Anti-Lynching and Anti-Poll tax bills. He pleased New York's large groups of immigrants by campaigning against the Walter-McCarran Immigration Act. Ives is strong on foreign aid, having advocated ECA, MSA, Point Four, and aid to Korea...
...eating to meats and vegetables (thoroughly boiled) and stewed fruit. Writer Betty (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Smith was in a hospital nursing 37 stitches in her face after an auto crash near Louisburg, N.C. Old New Dealer Paul Porter, now director of economic affairs for the MSA office in Paris, was reported "fine" after an emergency appendectomy which broke up a dinner party. Slant-eyed Actress Veronica Lake had to cancel a summer-theater engagement in Framingham, Mass. because of a slight virus infection. Mrs. Johnnie Ray, bride of the cry-baby singer, left her husband on tour...
Spain, a half-ally, half-wooed last year by Senator Pat McCarran's "special" $100 million appropriation (which President Truman has refused to deliver), was playing hard to get over the naval and air bases the U.S. wants. Franco's price: $125 million in MSA funds and an ironclad guarantee that the U.S. will fly to Spain's defense in the event of war with Russia...