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...House, Andrew J. May and Clifton A. Woodrum, chairmen respectively of the Military Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy, announced that they would begin studying the problem before the snow flies. In the Senate. Elbert D. Thomas' Military Affairs Committee already had before it a bill, sponsored by Alabama's Lister Hill, which provided the mechanics for merger. It calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: One Command? | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Emergency Council then announced that the newspaper staff had demonstrated its incompetence to select a board of editors. Nicholas McD. McKnight, associate dean of the College, entered the picture at this point with the suggestion that a committee be formed to submit a list of names to the Emergency Council for its determination of the Spectator's managing board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spec Staff Quits, Hits Dean's Action | 8/30/1945 | See Source »

...highceilinged, austerely white caucus room the House Select Committee on Postwar Military Policy began hearings which might well upset the U.S. tradition against peacetime conscription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Train or Not to Train? | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Journey to Limbo. In bits & pieces, the story of the Poles' disappearance had already come out. Last March the Russians notified the Poles that they would be glad to talk things over with a select, list of underground leaders. The Yalta agreement was not mentioned; this, ostensibly, was an internal affair between the Russians and the Poles. Among the Poles so honored were Deputy Prime Minister Jan Jankowski, and leaders of the principal parties (Socialist, Peasant, Nationalist, Christian Democrat) opposing Moscow's Warsaw regime. Another was General Leopold Okulicki, who had succeeded Tadeusz Bor, leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Skeleton at the Feast | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...Among the small, select group of U.S. quarterlies: American Scholar, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, Sewanee Review, South Today, Virginia Quarterly Review, Yale Review

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Desert Flowering | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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