Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman rushed to the defense of his nominee with a sharp letter to Subcommittee Chairman Ed Johnson of Colorado. "The powerful corporations subject to regulation by the commission," wrote the President, "have not been pleased with Mr. Olds." Colorado's tart old Democrat Johnson replied that subcommittee members were "shocked beyond description" by what Olds had once written. He had to admit that Olds as a witness was "very convincing. Like many crusaders for foreign ideologies, he has an attractive personality and is disarming to a very high degree...
...hoped that Colonel Johnson, faculty advisor of the West Point team, and a Harvard faculty member will add their remarks to those of the opposing speakers. The Colonel, who once did graduate work at Harvard, says this subject is a favorite with...
Last year, a televised discussion on a similar subject was held by these same two schools. The Harvard arguments centered around an attack on West Point's regimentation and lack of individual initiative...
...bewildered as Alice these days. The Appendix has always been good to chuckle over with its collection of oddments from rural newspapers, speeches delivered before ophthalmologists' conventions, and poems written by constituents from the Congressmen's home districts. But lately the contributions have been weighted rather heavily toward the subject of the "welfare state...
...rights & wrongs of artificial insemination were hotly debated last week by delegates to the Congress of Catholic Doctors in Rome. Up to that time, there had been no authoritative word on the subject from the Vatican...