Word: confrontations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone knows, inflation will be a central issue in the 1948 campaign. Harry Truman got his licks in early: "Inflation and the high cost of living confront the American people-all the American people-with a grave danger. Unchecked inflation can bring on a serious depression that can cause untold hardship. . . . The American people look to the Congress to pass legislation adequate to perform this all-important task. I trust that when the Congress returns it will promptly enact an effective, workable program...
...such, he is a vital part of the whole football picture, scouting for the Varsity with the rest of Harlow's assistants and working out the Varsity line in spring practice. But Lamar is still happiest sorting the varied grid talents which confront him each September and melting them down into a Harvard team...
Eleven distinct proposals for honoring the University's World War II dead will confront the joint Associated Harvard Clubs-Alumni Association War Memorial Committee when its meets tomorrow in Eliot House, according to a statement yesterday by Henry L. Clark '11, secretary of the Committee...
...College is to blame only for the continual feebleness of its attempts to lay groundwork for the housing future. When February rolls around and rooms in and out of the Houses empty, a semblance of standardized priority rating should confront the applicant. The Student Council-AVC housing committee-which by the College's own claim did yeoman work in investigating commuter hardship cases-should be brought into the confidence of those making allocations. Just as the looser critics of the housing powers-that-be could well lend a patient car to the full scope of the issue, so those...
...moment to bring up his bill for establishment of a five-man federal board of review, which would pass on the loyalty of all employees and applicants. The Rees bill's board would act as prosecutor, judge and jury; furthermore, those accused would be denied the right to confront their accusers and would have no appeal to the courts if found guilty. To many people, these measures seemed to infringe civil rights. But all attempts to modify the bill failed; the House jammed it through, 319-to-61. A slightly cooler Senate was expected...