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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were reports that Senate Republicans might seek to bypass the stalemate by efforts to have either the Senate expenditures or rules committee make an inquiry similar to that suggested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democrats Push Republicans to Drop Poll Probe | 7/25/1947 | See Source »

Nathaniel C. Nash, IV '45 crossed the threshold of the Veterans Guidance Center in the Vanserg Building last Thursday afternoon, hesitatingly took a look around, and involuntarily become the ten-thousandth man to seek the Center's advice since March, 1945 when it first opened for business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 10,000th Man Is Processed in Vets Guidance Unit Set Up by Harvard | 7/8/1947 | See Source »

...does not soon transfer surplus arms to Latin American governments, warned War Secretary Robert Patterson last week, they will seek arms and training "elsewhere." The Secretary did not say where. But Argentina had already ordered jet fighters from Britain, and Russia had large stocks of German tanks and planes to spare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Farewell to Arms? | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...expenses by waiting on tables, scaling fish at summer resorts, and sweeping out the local Y.M.C.A. Most of his time in the U.S., as Mbonu tells it, was spent as a sort of black Cinderella in a white man's coach. He often had to play hide-&-seek with Jim Crow, yet he went home feeling pretty optimistic about the U.S. race problem. His conclusion: "Against the declining forces of reaction and hate are overwhelming forces of progress and kindness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pride & Prejudice | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...others will seek to discover the effect of the President's veto of the bill on his political chances, and question of how various influences played on Congressmen voting for the bill. A fifth inquiry will ask for an estimate of the veto procedure as illustrated by the Congressional-Executive battle over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First College-wide Opinion Poll Prys Into Labor Views | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

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