Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From outside the Senate, Flanders won the support of a group of 23 top businessmen, labor leaders and educators, e.g., Publisher John Cowles (Des Moines Register & Tribune), Movie Producer Samuel Goldwyn, Financier Lewis W. Douglas (chairman. Mutual Life of New York). They wired every U.S. Senator (except McCarthy himself) urging a favorable vote "to curb the flagrant abuse of power by Senator McCarthy...
Summing up on our loss of friends among nations of the world, TIME did not take the opportunity to call attention to the insensate despot that now rules the U.S., Russia, France and England. This despot is the H-bomb. Its power is so great that it can cause mutual destruction . . . I believe most Americans (except Senator Knowland, et al.) would regret very much to have this happen...
EGYPT, by an agreement with Britain which has outlasted riots and mutual insults, controls the flow of the Nile. She thus manages to support 17 million fellahin on a thin green strip of land along its banks. The Nile's surplus is dammed up at Aswan during the wet season, released during the dry. Now in process: a Nile "century" scheme to even out wet and dry decades and provide an ever-normal flow for irrigation by making Lake Victoria into the world's largest storage...
...bald minority leader went back to his seat on the Democratic side of the chamber. The Democrats followed statesmanlike leadership. When the final vote had been tallied, 141 Democrats, 118 Republicans and one Independent (Ohio's Frazier Reams) were on record as favoring a $3,368,608,000 mutual-security program (only $109 million was cut from the original bill). Now the bill goes to the Senate, where the forecast is the same as it was in the House: trouble...
...been punished because he was not "enthusiastic" about the H-bomb. Like the Gray board, the AEC gave great weight to Dr. Oppenheimer's untruthfulness about security matters, e.g., his admitted lies about the approach made to him by Communist-tainted Haakon Chevalier, who told him that a mutual acquaintance had a way of getting information to the Communists...