Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Debate. Harry Truman had no choice. Others did. Minutes after the Senate overrode the President's veto, the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel, Gerhard P. Van Arkel, resigned, declaring that he had "grave doubts concerning both the workability and the fairness of this...
Last week, on the second anniversary of the Charter,* U.N.'s record was still befogged by the optimists and the cynics. Many of the optimists had actually joined the cynics. One clear-eyed Dutchman at San Francisco had been afraid of that. The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens had warned: "The world expects too much. . . . Make this clear, lest we defeat our purpose by giving the impression that we are doing more than...
...Force. As a matter of fact, U.N. had done about as well as such realists as Van Kleffens thought it would. Despite warnings that U.N. was not world government, the man in the street from San Francisco's Embarcadero to Calcutta's Chowringhee focused his attention on the international police force that was supposed to prevent aggression. On its second birthday, U.N. showed no sign of becoming a supersovereignty...
...highlights of the show were not the souvenirs nor the Queen's tureens. Poking about an auctioneer's office in Chelsea, Art Dealer Sidney Sabin had found a dusty, amazingly expert canvas of Christ crowned with thorns. He cleaned it up, found it to be a genuine Van Dyck, and happily toted it to the Fair...
Tuberculosis fighters are convinced that the absolute weapon against the disease is only a few million dollars off. Dr. Cassius J. Van Slyke, chief of the PHS research grants division, thinks that $6,000,000 a year for research (instead of the present $500,000) would solve the problem within a few years. Says he: one big push would...