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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World") Brown in TIME, Sept. 13. The location of the piece under "Science" and the scare headline put you in the position of trying to frighten a somewhat stupid child by telling him ghost stories . . . I enclose a 1? stamp and I suggest that you use it to start a fund to be used to buy Brown a 10? gyroscope...
Eager, but Disappointed. At the start of the week, his throat was raw. He had almost shouted himself out of voice. The hourly swabbings of his throat only helped make his temper raw. At a midnight stop at Ogden, Utah, he interrupted his blistering attack on Congress to scold and silence a group of noisy boys who had climbed a nearby tree. In San Francisco and Oakland he was bitterly disappointed by unenthusiastic audiences and by the absence of crowds along the sidewalks. In Oakland he took it out on cameramen who popped their flashes at him. The camera corps...
Houses will probably start arrangements for the purchase and installation of the sets within the next fortnight when House committees are organized and start work...
...pointed to the just-reached ECA decision channelling $300,000,000 into the French economy over the next two months as "clear indication of this government's intentions." This "counterpart fund" comprises monies France has been bound to set aside since the start of the Economic Cooperation Administration as an anti-inflation reserve specifically paralleling each American allocation. Ordinarily the reserve would remain untouchable. Schlesinger claims that releasing the funds is officially a non-partisan action aimed at economic health, but that it actually operates in a fundamental way against De Gaulle...
...analyzing election returns of the last 100 years, Bean concludes that 1946 was the statistical rock-bottom vote for the Democratic Party, below which the Democrats will not sink. In fact he adds that 1948 is actually the beginning of a new ebb tide for the G.O.P. and the start of another Democratic era. For support he points to the Congressional by-elections, the mayoralty races, and polls of 1947, all of which swung toward the Democrats and seemed to contradict the long-standing prediction of A. M. Schlesinger, Sr. that the U.S. is in for a Conservative...