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...effectuating the second part of this resolution the ad hoc committee could perform a desirable service. Although it is not noted for its pliability, the University might abandon tradition if urged by a large number of students and organizations. But the third part of the resolution makes the motives of those who passed it extremely suspect. They appear to be inordinately concerned with getting their names or the names of organizations to which they may belong associated with that of Mr. Wallace. There was no question of the competence of AVC to handle the details of the Wallace visit...
...House of Lords, Britain's Upper House, had daringly (and heavily) amended Labor's bill to nationalize transport (TIME, May 12), which the House of Commons had passed. Last week, the Commons debated the Lords' amendments. The session achieved a slambang abandon...
...immaterial. For headlong Miss Hopper and pudgy Miss Parsons are two of the mightiest publicity powers on earth, and even their whispers can reduce the $250,000-a-year padishahs of pictures to masses of quivering jelly. For a few words from Hedda, set down with the same swooping abandon with which she selects the hats that have become her trademark, or one of Lolly Parsons' little shark-toothed prose smiles, can make or break a director or an actor, cool or clinch a deal. Hedda's chit-chat can materially affect the outcome of schemes involving millions...
...loaded into that conclusion. European nations, for instance, will have to relax or abandon the tight net of restrictions on currency and commerce that now strangle trade between them. The French will have to put enough faith in the Allied control of Germany to let the German steel industry work for Europe at a higher production level. This will be even more difficult for a Frenchman than for a citizen of New Hampshire to resign himself to seeing another $15 billion go out of the U.S. But unless both France and New Hampshire face the facts, the "Marshall approach" will...
Secretary Marshall told the Governors' Conference at Salt Lake City last night that the United States must increase its economic aid to Europe or else see a decline of democracy. At the same time in Washington Harold E. Stassen asked America not to "abandon" the eight small states remaining aloof from the Paris conference at Russia's instigation...