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America's Town Meeting of the Air (Tues. 9 p.m., ABC). "How Can We Protect Citizens Behind the Iron Curtain?" Speakers: Robert Vogeler, Senators John Sparkman and George A. Smathers, Representative Jacob Javits...
Asked to define a "small business" last week, Alabama's Democrat John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee, replied: "The Defense Department defines it as any plant that in itself and affiliates employs not more than 500. The Bureau of Census breaks down the definition into type of business, volume and number of employees. I have also heard that a small businessman is one who is not big enough to maintain a representative in Washington...
...Senate Small Business Committee the CAB order has all the noose marks of a "death edict." CAB agreed this week to hold off its order for 30 days while the committee conducts a full investigation. Said Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, committee chairman: "It would appear outrageous to have . . . Government decree [the non-skeds] out of business...
Senator John Sparkman of Alabama, a U.S. delegate to the Assembly, promptly announced that the U.S. would support the new Latin American proposal. Although the U.S. had originally voted for the 1946 ban, the State Department now felt that: 1) the ban had failed since 17 U.N. members, most of them Latin American states, were still exchanging ambassadors or ministers with Spain; 2) the ban was useless because there was no visible alternative to the Franco regime in Spain; 3) Spain was a part of Western Europe and should not be permanently isolated...
...fact that he had recently joined other Senate Republicans in placing responsibility for the Korean war on the Administration. His appointment also gave the G.O.P. a majority of regular delegates to the Assembly-Lodge, New York's John Foster Dulles and Delegation Chief Warren Austin. Besides Fair Dealer Sparkman, the only other Democrat among the regulars is Eleanor Roosevelt...