Word: recommenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Russell conducted the MacArthur hearings to the good-natured bumbling of Karl Mundt at the Army-McCarthy hearings. Last week came a chairman with a different style. Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins, 67, began presiding over the special Senate committee on whether to recommend censure of Senator Joe McCarthy. He was quiet, polite, clearheaded-and very stubborn when pushed...
...lumbermen walked out for a 12.5? hourly wage boost, is ending with little gain for the workers. About half the strikes were settled piecemeal, with raises averaging 5? an hour. The other strikers are expected to go back to work at pre-strike wages, let a fact-finding board recommend a settlement...
SEATO reflects America's dreamy postwar passion for grand coalitions, which actually have less to recommend them than the old-fashioned diplomacy-which consisted of particular arrangements for precise ends. It is State Department doctrine to talk of SEATO as an assemblage of like-minded nations, which will be broadened (it is always hoped) to include other nations later on. But a grand flotilla of allies must travel at the speed of the slowest ship in the convoy. The old-fashioned solution would be to make hard-and-fast arrangements-separately or in small groupings-with Syngman Rhee, with...
Japan's pressing, problem, said the three governors, is self-support. "To accomplish this all-important economic necessity Japan must have access to resources and markets in Southeast Asia ... It is difficult for the free world to absorb the full output of a vigorous Japanese economy. Therefore, we recommend limited and controlled trade with Red China as well as increased trade between Japan and her non-Communist neighbors. The former must be so restricted and so regulated that it will help develop a program of self-subsistence for Japan and not build...
...letter Dr. Seaborg had said that he "would have to hear some good arguments before I could take on sufficient courage to recommend not going toward" a thermonuclear program. He noted that Dr. Ernest 0. Lawrence, director of the radiation laboratory at the University of California, was already proposing to get the program under way. If the GAC were asked to comment on the proposal, he wrote, "It seems to me clearly we should heartily endorse it." Despite this sharp exception to the GAC's "unanimous" stand, Dr. Oppenheimer originally had said that he did not recall the letter...