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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only major conflict in the two bills. The Senate wanted a limit of two 5% jumps in twelve months, not to exceed an overall increase of 15% over the rental of June 1947. The House bill provided for a "reasonable return" to the landlord but didn't say how it was to be determined. In the end, Senate and House conferees compromised on a provision insuring landlords "a fair net operating income," to be determined by national and local rent officials...
...Communist Party had been around the U.S. for 30 years, yet the Federal Government had never before tried to prosecute it for conspiracy. It was nonsense to say that communism's "scientific socialism" ("Much easier to understand than relativity," he declared) taught the violent overthrow of the U.S. The party, which numbered 70,000 members, merely practiced "the real principles of Marxism-Leninism...
Jersey state police. They help train Persia's gendarmerie. That, said Acheson,is all. Acheson did not say so but it is a fact that scores of Communist agents have swarmed into northern Persia in the last few months. Teheran last week reported an "incident" near Gurgan, on the Persian-Russian border, where 50 Russian soldiers clashed with Persian forces; one Persian was killed, two abducted...
...Communists have captured the great propaganda citadel of "a united Germany"-while the West has been frantically building what is called even officially "a state fragment." West Germans don't want Communism, but they do want a united Germany. The Communists say they can deliver that. Some German conservatives listen to them. From the Soviet zone, these weeks, comes a steady stream of political marriage brokers promising, like Christian Democrat Leader Otto Nuschke, "to bring the Russian zone as a splendid dowry in marriage with West Germany...
...Says wife Doris: "It amuses Pierre to see younger conductors eye him appraisingly, saying to themselves, 'When is that old bozo going to give up?' But, he says, 'I shall conduct till I'm 90. I shall die holding a baton.' " Says Pierre: "I didn't say 90. I said...