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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sell the U.S., especially skeptical Midwestern Republicans, on the Marshall Plan idea. In 1947 Herter proposed creation of a special Select Committee on Foreign Aid, became its chairman, shrewdly arranged that its 17 members should include a sprinkling of deep-dyed isolationists. Leading his committee on an allwork, no-play tour of war-ravaged Europe, he saw to it that his fellow Congressmen got an eye-opening look at the ugly realities of postwar Europe. Result: the Herter committee's reports came out so staunchly for aid to Europe that the Marshall Plan won sturdy bipartisan support. "Without...
...Southern Rhodesia a Hindu may not buy liquor without a special permit. A Moslem attorney from Nyasaland, working on a case in the capital of Southern Rhodesia, suddenly found that he could not use the washroom or take the elevator. In Dar es Salaam an Asian may play cricket with Europeans, but he will not then be able to join them for a drink at the Gumkhana Club. In the Union of South Africa, Asians have long since been virtually eliminated from voting rolls, have been gradually squeezed out of the civil service, and, being lumped together with the "coloreds...
...expropriating U.S. property, and any property we take we'll pay for." The Congressmen were charmed-but one of them, Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers, got up on the Senate floor that afternoon to say: "Castro hasn't yet learned that you can't play ball with the Communists, for he has them peppered throughout his government...
...about breaks even-not counting the endless, unpaid hours spent screening new scores and rehearsing. Nowadays he finds that it is easier to sell modern music to lay audiences than to musicians: "Most musicians stop with Debussy; that's the last 'new' music they learned to play...
...collapsed. In the N.H.L.'s tensest finale in years, the Leafs were trailing Detroit 2-0 when they heard over the public-address system that the Rangers had lost their final game in New York; they roared back to take the game, and with it the Rangers' play-off berth. In their cup semifinal against Boston, the Leafs spotted the Bruins a two-game lead, came back to win four games to three. Boston's Manager Lynn Patrick was more impressed by Coach Imlach than by the Leafs: "He has a gift for making 98-lb. weaklings...