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...Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy issued a guarded report on U.S. reserves of raw uranium. Its gist: there is plenty of uranium ore in sight. Both foreign and domestic sources must be thoroughly developed, said the committee, but "so far as uranium raw materials are concerned, the military may ask for and get-following several years of 'lead time'-as many bombs as they consider to be necessary to deter war or to win a war quickly if it comes...
News of the impending ultimatum leaked out, and Fine heard about it. When two of the county leaders appeared to deliver it, Fine was ready. No one knows just what he told them. The gist: he flatly refused to commit himself for the time being. Once again, John Fine stretched without breaking...
...plan at all. ¶ Made public a long letter he had written to Aviator-Farmer C. S. ("Casey") Jones of Washington Crossing, Pa., explaining that the Administration did not actually claim unbounded executive power-as the Department of Justice was trying to prove in court (see above). The gist of the letter: the steel seizure, though "very drastic" and within the President's constitutional powers, did not mean the executive authority was unlimited. "The powers of the President are derived from the Constitution, and they are limited, of course, by the provisions of the Constitution, particularly those that protect...
...York Timesman Arthur Krock subsequently reported that in this talk the Attorney General had conducted a running argument with the President. Its gist: since Truman and McGrath were agreed on holding up the Morris questionnaire and the need to dismiss Morris, it ought to be recorded in announcements by both the White House and the Justice Department. The President, said Krock, moved away from the argument. Later, McGrath and Short kicked it around some more; the presidential aide thought that both Morris and McGrath ought to go. The Attorney General protested that this would make him a "goat...
...Ciudadano (The Citizen) is published occasionally, without official sanction, by Argentina's opposition Radical Party. Last week El Ciudadano hit Buenos Aires newsstands with a story that sold 40,000 copies to goggle-eyed citizens before police confiscated the rest of the edition. Its gist: Perón has formed a private militia from the ranks of his General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), and is preparing to arm it to the teeth...