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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nourse was concerned, the job was to report the economic terrain exactly as he saw it. As far as Keyserling was concerned, the job was to report the scene so that it fitted into the political philosophy of Harry Truman's Democratic Party. Between those two points of view, Clark wavered back & forth. In the beginning, Nourse's view of the CEA as an economic transit, not a political tool, generally prevailed...
...more general and gentler tones-when he laid the cornerstone of the half-finished new United Nations Building in Manhattan (see INTERNATIONAL). Then, after lunching with Mayor Bill O'Dwyer-a gesture which was calculated to help the mayor's chances in the New York election two weeks hence-he went back to Washington...
Last week the President also: <| Nominated two prominent Democratic job-hunters to $15,000-a-year jobs: Washington's former Governor Mon C. Wall-gren, an amiable, poker-playing crony, to the Federal Power Commission, and New York's former Senator James M. Mead to the Federal Trade Commission. The Senate quickly confirmed them both, ^f Appointed Richard Feeney, 5, son of a White House employee, as an official White House squirrel feeder-providing i) the boy draws no pay, and 2) furnishes his own peanuts...
...first peacetime alliance with European nations in U.S. history, and a $1 billion program to help arm the alliance. After a seizure of quibbling, Congress authorized a generous $5.4 billion appropriation for EGA. The hobbling "peril-point" amendment was struck off the reciprocal-trade program, and the authority extended two years. The 81st also gave U.S. defense all that the President had asked-and decided that he had not asked enough. It appropriated a $15.6 billion defense budget, a record for peacetime, adding funds for an extra ten groups to the 48-group Air Force requested by the White House...
...modest margin of two extra points was all the hard-driving freshman football team needed to beat Dartmouth at Hanover yesterday...