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...Truman also pitched into Arkansas' Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright and his subcommittee's report condemning White House influence in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (TIME, Feb. 12). He had spent ten years in the Senate, said Harry Truman waspishly, but he was happy to say he never wrote a report like that...
That Oxford Blank-Blank. Truman's dislike for Rhodes Scholar Fulbright was a long-standing one, dating from Fulbright's suggestion after the Republican victory in 1946 that Harry Truman should appoint a Republican Secretary of State and resign in his favor, following the English parliamentary pattern. In his private conversation, Truman has since referred to Fulbright as "that overeducated, Oxford blank-blank...
Last week a special Senate subcommittee gave Merl the Milkman the recognition he deserved. The investigators, led by Senator Fulbright (Dem., Ark.), reported that they had found the RFC's multimillion-dollar operations ridden by "favoritism" and dominated by outsiders wielding undue influence over RFC officials. White House Aide Donald Dawson, a shrewd veteran of 18 years in Washington's bureaucratic jungle was exercising "considerable influence" over certain RFC directors and had "tried to dominate" the agency from his White House perch. But, the Senators added, "the individual named most frequently in the reports of alleged influence...
William S. Smith, lecturer in Fine Arts, has been appointed director of the now American Research center in Egypt for 1951. Smith, who also holds a Fulbright Fellowship, will sail for Cairo a week from tomorrow. He will study materials from the recent Giza excavations and survey paintings and reliefs in Middle Kingdom rock-out tombs...
Arkansas' William Fulbright broke in: "It is a very shocking thing for Europeans to realize that we are willing to contemplate their destruction...