Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman, who likes to balance his budgets, was not committing the government to a program of deficit financing, i.e., spending more money than it takes in. Not everyone agreed with his prescription, the President admitted, but his opponents were either "men of little vision" or spokesmen for the "selfish interests...
Taft was quickly on his feet. He asked if Dulles knew that the President was about to submit an arms program as "an implementation of the Atlantic pact." Dulles knew no such thing: "I do understand that there is a program . . . which was worked out entirely independently of any treaty ... I see in the treaty no legal or moral obligation to vote any arms program which is not defensible on its own merits...
...Brashest of the trio is Henry Morgan, 34, whose acid, uneven comedy has usually been based on his distaste for sponsors. Morgan, who will try anything, tried (and failed) this spring to do a TV show in addition to his sustaining radio program...
Berkshire Festival (Sun. 4:35 p.m., NBC). All-Mozart program. Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky...
...Italian artists who composed that manifesto in 1910 called themselves "Futurists" and thought they had hit upon the makings of a modern renaissance. One of the best, Umberto Boccioni, sculptured a figure that aptly symbolized their program: a striding man transformed into a flamelike tangle of whipping air currents...