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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raushenbush, in advocating the investigation, cited the success of a similar survey by Columbia's Student Council, and emphasized that the student body should be kept informed, especially "at present (when) in a view of the apparent disinflation, another increase will arouse vigorous complaint...
Following the early evening banquet, the 350 attending HUERA members cheered congratulatory addresses from union and University officials. Aldrich Durant '02, retired University Business Manager, James Biggar '13, former superintendent of Buildings and Grounds and Cecil A. Roberts, present superintendent, were among the speakers...
Hocking will present the philosopher's ideas, and Bridgeman, Nobel Prize winner in Physics, the scientist's technique. Dean Muelder, member of the Civil Liberties Union and author of "An Historic Outline of the Bible," is expected to present both a religious and social interpretation of the problem...
...inter-service bickering which preceded the passage of the act has quieted down, but the fight continues full throttle on the Washington level. Most of the service squabbles have new crystallized around the drawing-up of the defense budget, the question of appropriations rapidly breaking down into the ever-present problem of the specific wartime jobs of the three services. The duplication in equipment and personnel resulting from this unsettled question of military functions has been estimated to have jumped the total proposed defense appropriation of $14,218,000,000 by one-quarter...
...been busy digging away at inefficiency in the Government, has just come up with a plan for a thorough shake-up of the whole National Security Organization, the first plan to overhaul completely the 1947 compromise. The Commission jumps on the budget problem as indicating the defects in the present organization. It cites the incredible fact that a $30,000,000,000 defense budget was once being seriously considered for 1950; that this budget included the remodeling of precisely 102 more tanks of a certain type than the Army owned; that an error in calculation tacked...