Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mahon could only hope that his final figure sensibly measured the distance between the two extremes. He and his committee had talked it over for eleven weeks with the nation's top military people: the past & present Secretaries of Defense, the three Secretaries and their chiefs of staff. The military agreed that if war immediately threatened, the bill should be at least $50 billion, not $15 billion. Said Mahon: "These men did not predict an early outbreak of war, but they agreed that some unpredictable development might throw us suddenly into conflict . . . This, however, was not anticipated . . . No military...
Congressmen will soon have a chance to get their paws on an Administration bill to pass out $300,000,000 to the nation's public schools. Although supporters of this aid to education are reasonably confident that the House and Senate will agree with the measure, they are also understandably nervous. For the last 30 years, the national legislature has consistently batted down so-called "general-aid" education bills, although it has approved such specific programs as land-grant colleges and funds for vocational training...
...hards who complain that this bill is going to give Washington dictatorial powers over the Impressionable Youth of the Nation are talking through their hats. The bill itself is drawn with a delicate feeling for states' rights touchiness; the money goes to the states practically without any strings at all. Any federal bureaucrat who attempted to tell a teacher how or what to teach would promptly be hung from them chandelier in the U. S. Senate...
...signs of war according to Holcombe would be: 1) tendency to talk about a "balance of power" among nations, 2) secret plans for armed action by the Atlantic nations, and 3) appropriation of arms from one Atlantic nation to another without informing the public...
...giant Democratic boondoggle (c) a violation of states' rights, and other things too horrible to mention. Needless to say, the TVA proved to be none of these evils and in fact it brought the Middle South back to life. Its success started citizens in other areas of the nation thinking seriously about more Valley Authorities, but thus far the mercenaries of the special interest lobbies have been able to route all other TVA-like plans to an early grave. Now the lobbies are desperately trying to sink their hooks into Truman's proposal to set up a Columbia Valley Authority...