Word: oic
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...They were New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges and New York's Congressman John Taber, chairmen, respectively, of the Senate and the House Appropriations Committees. Their chat touched on such combustible topics as the administering of Greek aid, State Department housecleaning, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden, OIC's Voice of America broadcasts. The language was blunt and unvarnished...
...OIC-"I'm going to houseclean that department," Marshall said, in effect. "But I've got to have time to do it. And you've got to remember I inherited this mess. I didn't create it. It will take time-but I'm going to have my time in getting things righted...
Faulty Lisp. Congressman Mundt was not entirely satisfied himself with the OIC's Voice of America. But he was not willing to cut its throat because of a "faulty lisp or a foreign accent." Said he: "Let us rather guide it to make certain it develops the sturdy American twang...
...together with the State Department and worked out a bill, which the department swallowed with a hard gulp. Into it went ideas of Mundt's own: 1) a rigid FBI check on the loyalty of OIC employees; 2) a specific provision that no aliens should be employed unless no qualified U.S. citizens are available. He summoned Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State William Benton, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Walter Bedell Smith and finally Secretary of State Marshall to testify. With one voice, they said that it was "folly" to spend millions for foreign...
...week's end, even the G.O.P.'s most ardent axman, New York's John Taber, conceded that there might be something in OIC, after all. If the "drones, the loafers, and the incompetents" were weeded out, said Taber, maybe his appropriations committee could see its way clear to allowing OIC $5 to $6 million. The Senate might appropriate even more...