Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the Democrats showed certain spurious concern for the plight of the Grand Old Party. Said National Chairman Bill Boyle: "I earnestly pray that these failures will persuade the Republican Party that it must develop a program of its own if it wishes to preserve not only its own political party but the two-party system." Matters had hardly gotten to that extreme stage yet. A closer danger was that Republican diehards in the Midwest seize on the defeat of Internationalist John Foster Dulles as one more proof that the bipartisan foreign policy was a political albatross...
...Turned up at a luncheon given by the National Conference of Christians and Jews and promised to keep plugging for his civil rights program. Said the President "I don't see how we can do otherwise than pass this legislation...
Among his accomplishments: abolition of segregation in New Jersey's National Guard, an increase in teachers' minimum salaries (from $1,200 to $2,200), a sickness-liability law covering 1,600,000 workers and a $50 million veterans' housing program...
Lanky, leather-faced Aubrey Williams turned it around. He went whole hog for Harry Truman's Fair Deal, especially for his civil-rights program, hopes to make the Farmer a powerful political organ. Said he: "The Farmer is for any New Deal plan you can name." By last week Publisher Williams, 59, had about tripled Southern Farmer's circulation to 1,052,821, only a furrow's width behind the South's biggest farm publications, the Southern Agriculturist (circ. 1,103,034) and the Progressive Farmer (circ. 1,080,575),-but fields ap&rt in journalistic...
...recent flurry of articles and letters regarding the NROTC loyalty oath, one vital point seems to have been overlooked. The NROTC, as well as being a part of the Harvard curriculum, is essentially a Navy Organization. To enter the program, one must meet certain scholastic and physical requirements, and to be commissioned, one must meet other requirements during four years of College. The Navy sets these standards so that it can be sure all its Midshipmen are of a certain calibre...