Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Republican Party would sorely miss such a spokesman; the remaining voices in Congress-or at least the loudest of them-fell too readily these days into mere nagging. Without Vandenberg, the party's ideas on foreign policy had often fallen to a low level, sometimes even to the low level of McCarthyism: irresponsible, theatrical, partisan. (At Princeton University last week, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey warned: "Before any Republican rejoices at the possible shipwreck of the foreign policy of the Democratic Administration, he should remember that we are all in the same boat...
Because "pipeline companies, and in turn the consumers of natural gas, are bound to the producers" by the "physical location of their pipelines," the President wrote, he could not agree that competition would work to keep prices down to a reasonable level. It was possible that the FPC might have to step in. Hence his first veto of 1950. Said Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas, who had led the opposition: "God bless the President of the United States...
...beneficiaries were happy about price supports. The American Butter Institute, representing producers of 30-40% of the U.S. butter supply, asked Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan to cut support prices by about 3? a pound to the legal premium. "The present level of support prices," said the institute, "discourages consumption...
...plot full of bloody revenge, gypsy law, witch-burning and baby-switching. Carmine Gallone, director of this first screen version of "II Trovatore," has tried hard to make the plot understandable and has succeeded, by using English narration and subtitles. Gallone has also kept the singing on a high level. In the final account, however, this filming of "II Trovatore" cannot boast of much more than a clear plot and good voices...
Among the projects which will be suggested to interested students are short manuscripts and exhibits on printing technique, such as are now on display on the first level at Lamont. Several members of a College literary magazine have already expressed interest in utilizing the room to experiment with various types of lay-outs...