Word: record
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Desire. After Harry Truman's re-election and the triumphant upsurge in Washington of the Fair Deal, Keyserling began to move in. Almost any time Nourse opened his mouth in public, Keyserling, from his adjoining office, wrote him a long-winded and challenging letter, keeping carbons for the record. Patiently Nourse replied by letter-also for the record. Increasingly Nourse dissented from Harry Truman's economic views; consistently Keyserling agreed with them, supported them. Finally Nourse wrote his resignation, remarking to a friend after the President's 1949 Economic Report to Congress...
...sense in the world in either the steel or coal strikes; he castigated steel management for not accepting the report of his fact-finding board and criticized the union for standing on the letter of the board's report. Having put his remarks off the record (they inevitably leaked), he went back to Blair House, apparently not displeased at having had an opportunity to speak his mind...
Abroad. In international affairs, the 81st's record-like the 80th's−was good. Under bipartisan leadership, the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty,, the first peacetime alliance with European nations in U.S. history, and a $1 billion program to help arm the alliance. After a seizure of quibbling, Congress authorized a generous $5.4 billion appropriation for EGA. The hobbling "peril-point" amendment was struck off the reciprocal-trade program, and the authority extended two years. The 81st also gave U.S. defense all that the President had asked-and decided that he had not asked enough...
...could not achieve, Harry Truman had won quite a bit, though it was not nearly as much as he had asked or as he had promised to get. Said he, perhaps mindful of the do-nothing days of early summer: "You know, I'm happy about the record of Congress. It accomplished more than I expected...
...knew the combat records of the members of the J.C.S.: himself, General Hoyt Vandenberg, who had commanded the Ninth Air Force in Europe, the Army's General J. Lawton Collins, who had commanded the VII Corps at Normandy. Then he got in a low blow: "I was not associated with Admiral Denfeld during the war. I am not familiar with his experiences . . . [Denfeld, by order of his superiors, spent most of the war in Washington as Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel]. Undoubtedly it was because of this record that he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations...