Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the customary portentous warnings, appeals to reason, calls upon Heaven as a witness, and ceremonious threats, the 81st Congress got down to business last week. Members pitched into the presidential legislative hayload, and guessed that about half of it might be enacted. The program had its own special Congressman's nightmare: the thought of raising taxes*raised the hackles on members' necks and troubled their digestions...
...York Post and the weekly Nation, but they had a different reason. Forrestal had stirred them up by wanting to put Germany back on her feet, as essential to European recovery. He had enraged them in the Palestine dispute by urging that the U.S. be mindful at the same time of Arab friendship. As Secretary of National Defense he stoutly defended this policy as necessary to protect the U.S.'s Middle East oil supplies and its vital chain of Middle East air bases. His critics did not give him credit for that kind of reasoning, whether it was wrong...
There is a sound administrative reason for demanding membership lists: to use the Radcliffe name, an organization must prove itself bona fide and of reasonable size. Under normal conditions, this reason would be enough to justify the official position...
...that, he ought to be able to keep his paper. Whether he wants it for future reference, or for sentiment's sake, or for no special reason at all, he has more use for it than the particular Department involved, which can do nothing more valuable with it than donate it to an old-paper drive...
Yesterday WHRV officials stated that the F.C.C. had no jurisdiction over the Crimson Network because WHRV sends its programs over the University electric wires. It also insisted that WHDH must have used microphones in the chambers to get its recordings. This statement contradicted Rowell's reason for allowing WHDH permission to record...