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Unanimously the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the nation's UNO-participation bill, passed it on to the Senate for a vote. Such prompt and positive committee clearance meant that the bill, giving the U.S. a world responsibility it has never had before, would pass with little opposition, become law as soon as the President signed it (Harry Truman had his pen primed...
Some months ago the question might have been answered with a prompt "no" by many a U.S. voter, Republicans included. One reason: President Truman's popularity stood at an unprecedented high...
...measured complaints of Democrat Powell and his 25-year-old wife were prompt-and promptly relayed to the press. In Minneapolis for a concert, Miss Scott told newsmen she thought the First Lady's action "looks as if she gives sanction" to the D.A.R. action...
...believe that the presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 2 will ever materialize. He charged General Valentim Benicio da Silva with engineering "the same political atmosphere as that of 1937 when Getulio [President Getulio Vargas] with the Army's consent . . . took over the Government." The General's prompt answer: trial before the Security Tribunal...
...looks as if humanity is moving inexorably toward Armageddon and into the limbo of forgotten things, an oblivion of its own making. Only the remnant now left of what Mr. Wilson called the "enlightened conscience of mankind" can save the situation. Unless prompt action is taken it will again be "too little and too late," and this time destiny plays for keeps...