Word: perlman
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Harry Truman used some dynamite last week to blast loose at least a part of his civil rights program. At his orders, Solicitor General Philip Perlman, in a speech in New York City, touched off the explosion. Henceforth, said Perlman, the Federal Housing Administration will not insure any loans made on private dwellings which are going to be restricted on the basis of race, creed or color. The policy may affect one-third of all new housing...
Please don't print anything more like that. People might get the wrong idea about us. DORIS PERLMAN (14) Albany...
Uncertainties. Over in Sterling Hall, silver-haired little Professor Selig Perlman, 60, a top economist, is sorry to see the veterans on their way out. Says Perlman: "I liked the returned G.I.s very much; you could talk to them. They were rather fed up with particularism and intellectual isolation; they wanted to see the whole picture...
...bows. One was man-made curium, No. 96 in the periodic table and the heaviest element known. The creation of curium was announced in 1945 (TIME, Nov. 26, 1945). But the element was not "isolated" (purified chemically) until recently. The world's total supply, prepared by Drs. Isadore Perlman and L. B. Werner of the University of California, is barely big enough to be seen with the naked...
...Democratic Senators in the face of this threat was not such as to allay suspicion: they had closed ranks, made it a party issue, and blocked the investigation. Beaten earlier, the Republicans tried a flank movement in the final hours by holding up confirmation of Democrat Philip B. Perlman as Solicitor General. It was 3:35 a.m. before they finally gave up. Perlman was confirmed. At 3:50, disgruntled, unshaven and bone-weary after three nights of cat naps on cloakroom cots, the Senators tramped out into the pre-dawn darkness. The first, seven-month session of the 80th Congress...