Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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While it is probable that there are people who make a cult of dianetics, that fact is irrelevant. The only issue is whether or not it works toward making people more happy and more sane . . . Sane people do not belong to cults . . . We agree that Hubbard makes too many wild generalizations . . . But if dianetics works, what is now hyperbole may become cold fact...
...From early reports we had, the people back home consider this just a police action. After reading the last issue of TIME I feel a lot better about the whole thing. It makes these long days make a lot more sense. These TIME stories give us an idea of what we're fighting for actually, and anyone who reads them will soon forget the idea that this is nothing more than a little skirmish...
...Dewey got a telephone call from "a nice young man" in Washington. The young man had heard that Dewey was appointing General Lucius D. Clay to run New York state's civilian defense, and that Clay was laying some plans. "He asked me," recounted Dewey last week, "to make no plans which would be inconsistent with those of the Federal Government. I said, 'Which plans?' He said they hoped to have some in September. I asked him whether he had an enforceable guarantee against attack in the meantime and he said 'No.' I advised...
...should be made in Washington, not Tokyo. Finally, on short notice, quiet, slender Averell Harriman, the President's new foreign affairs troubleshooter, was hustled off by plane to Tokyo. He was to tell the general to keep the President better informed, and on non-military matters to make recommendations, not decisions...
Flotsam, Jetsam. He had not seen anything yet. Congressmen on both sides of the aisle with special interests to serve went to work on the Spence bill. They amended it to weaken it; they amended it to strengthen it. The House agreed to make price controls mandatory if the cost-of-living index went up 5% above the level of June 15 (food prices had already gone up 2% to 3%); the White House shuddered at such a notion. Other amendments got in the bill: to exempt radio, television, periodicals and insurance underwriters from price control; to chop...