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...A.N.P.A.'s general counsel. "I have the unpleasant duty to inform you," he said, "that the Department of Justice is about to initiate an antitrust action against the A.N.P.A., charging it with having conspired not only with other trade-association groups but with its own members . . . unreasonably to restrain trade in advertising...
...plan is impractical, however, because this committee has always concerned itself with investigations of specific economic details. Traditional procedure would inevitably force questions of policy aside. By including members of several committees--finance, expenditures, and economy--in one Joint Committee, perhaps the dissimilarity of methods and practices might restrain the legislative instinct for the insignificant. Of all these proposals, Lipscomb's is most likely to unite the various participants in budget planning in a group which can keep its mind on policy...
...five years scholars have been precariously straddling the proverbial frying pan's edge. From without, legislative committees and the public press have attacked members of university communities collectively as communists or "pinkos." Inside the academic fold, more subtle pressures from administrators and alumni boards have often forced teachers to restrain their feelings about academic freedom in order to retain their jobs. Tactically compelled to cooperate with legislative committees, the academic community has, nevertheless, found new strength within its own bailiwick. The recent action of prominent professors, three of them from Harvard, in professionally boycotting the University of Washington...
...Hatoyama to more and more flirtation with the Communist powers. Washington was pleased, however, with the retention as Foreign Minister of one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, who signed Japan's surrender on the Missouri in 1945. Shigemitsu is a sober, careful man who can be counted on to restrain, as much as he can, Japan's overtures to Russia and Red China...
Briefly, the concept is that Soviet Russia not only will not venture to start a big war but will restrain her allies, including Red China, from doing...