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...reaction in Congress and in the U.S. was prompt and nonpartisan approval. And, while Congress will not tackle the politically ticklish job of passing a peacetime military-training law before elections, there was talk in Washington that such a proposal would be considered before year...
...Truman, Isn't It?" Candidate Dewey stayed noncommittal on two ticklish subjects. Eric Johnston, just back from Russia, went to Albany bubbling with enthusiasm over close commercial relations with Russia after the war. Tom Dewey listened intently, said nothing for the record. Asked whether the labor leaders he would see in Pittsburgh included
...sovereign aims. His position squares with 1) Canada's claims to a seat on future Pan American councils, 2) the fierce intranationalism of ardently isolationist French Canada, which has always supported Mr. King's noncommittal policy toward the Commonwealth. But the Prime Minister has a ticklish question to answer: Does his policy square with the tide of Commonwealth opinion running strongly in Britain and the other Dominions? Balance for Britain? In Britain, no less than in Canada, there is a strong belief that the Commonwealth & Empire can prosper best in a worldwide economic and political system. But Britons...
...cartoon's 22 sq. in., Publisher Patterson satisfactorily absolved himself and his fellows from the charge of pandering, and put their millions of readers in the delightfully ticklish spot of appearing to demand what a reluctant press was forced to give them...
...truck (based on an amphibian jeep previously designed by OSRD) which could run on land and water and do heavy duty in beachhead operations. It was a job at which many had failed; most attempts had simply placed an ordinary truck on pontoons, with dampening results. OSRD assigned the ticklish part of the design, not to a truck maker, but to a firm of yacht designers, Sparkman & Stephens. They were to produce a watertight hull; General Motors, Yellow Trucks, the truck chassis and motor...