Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just what ex-Mayor McLaughlin was talking about. Despite all the loud congressional forensics, Congress seemed unwilling or unable to practice what it preached. It had no help from the President, who had called for a record budget (see box), though traditionally it is his responsibility to preserve the nation's financial health...
Drastic measures were being proposed to solve the nation's hottest educational problem-whether Communists and their sympathizers should be barred from U.S. campuses, and if so, by what means. The University of Nebraska had not only barred teachers, but also any textbooks that the Regents might consider subversive. The House Committee on Un-American Activities had called on 107 colleges to send in full lists of their textbooks for investigation. "I suppose this must include the Bible," cracked Wellesley's retiring President Mildred McAfee Horton...
Sudden Scramble. Union men feel that their story has been scarcely whispered on the nation's airwaves. Of the nearly 2,000 AM stations in the U.S., only one-Chicago's WCFL-is labor-owned. Established in 1926 by the Chicago Federation of Labor, WCFL's programs include broadcasts of football games, the Chicago Symphony, Don McNeil's Breakfast Club, and the Eleanor Roosevelt-Anna Boettiger show. It differs from other Chicago stations only in its vocal support of striking workers...
...Nazis were rather like cancer," says Rhoads, growing philosophical as all scientists are apt to do when they think about cancer. "Starting with a variant cell, Hitler, the Nazis multiplied throughout the German nation, bringing it to destruction. It took external forces to kill the Nazi cancer...
...their $5¼ million, De Bretteville and friends got assets which they estimate at $10 million. Among them: ¶Half-interest in the Spreckels Sugar Co. with its three California beet-sugar plants (including the nation's largest), and its 14,000 acres of land, most of it in the rich Salinas Valley...