Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power. After five stormy hours, the caucus decided that henceforth the chairman of any House committee which reports a bill will have the right to call up the bill for consideration by the whole House, after the Rules Committee has sat on it for 21 days. Then, the plan was put before the entire House. By a voice vote the changes became...
...clear: Harry Truman had not talked over his Eddie Jacobson speech with the front-parlor boys in the State Department, or the political handymen in his "Kitchen Cabinet." And no key Administration official was talking of a letup in the four-way squeeze on Russia: the airlift, the Marshall Plan, the upcoming $15 billion new arms budget, the proposed North Atlantic security pact. The best "educated guess" that his advisers could make was that Harry Truman, all on his own, was just trying a little propaganda campaign to start a little mutual distrust in the Politburo...
...voters had been asked to pay billions in Marshall Plan aid, and billions for U.S. military expansion. Last week, in his first formal report, Defense Secretary Jim Forrestal told them that all this was still not enough for security against the Russians.* The U.S. taxpayers would also have to dig up more billions to arm America's friends abroad...
...Santa sighed . . . 'It's the Marshall Plan or jail...
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