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Asked if he questioned the right of the Senate to change its legislative mind, Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright said: "We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes...
William Thomson, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, called the present state of affairs "an impossible situation," with the outcome completely uncertain. He said that an Egyptian student here on a Fulbright Scholarship had told him that the new premier, Aly Maher Pasha, represented the aristocratic segment of the populace. The student added that Maher Pasha understood the British better than his predecessor, Mustapha Nahas Pasha of the popular Waflist party, and could deal with the foreigners more capably...
...five directors. A regular luncheon companion of Dawson's and of E. Merl (Mink Coat) Young's, Willett was willing to do some favors in return. To give big loans to politically correct companies and individuals, he switched RFC examiners and overrode his own reviewers. After the Fulbright committee's investigation of the RFC, the Senate, in February 1951, refused to confirm his appointment...
...small group (including Senator William Fulbright of Arkansas and Philip D. Reed, board chairman of General Electric) thinks that present arms production is too high, that the inflationary strain on the U.S. economy is a greater danger at the moment than Soviet Russia. If the Korean war stops, this view is likely to grow in influence...
Monro, chairman of the Harvard Fulbright Committee, said the reason for the decrease is that "several men have realized the slimness of their chances, and declined to apply. We have fewer applicants this year, but their standards are very high...