Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gross Slander." Most Washington correspondents believed that Dean Acheson had been sincerely converted to a get-tough policy toward Russia. It was he who helped inspire, draft and put over the Greek-Turkish aid program. Before a Senate committee, Acheson charged: "Russian foreign policy is an aggressive and expanding one." Molotov protested that it was "gross slander ... inadmissible behavior . . . hostile," and was slapped down by George Marshall...
...Program. Then Harry Truman noted some "shortcomings" in an otherwise happy land. He told Congress what it should do about them and thus laid out his legislative program...
Other Truman remedies for shortcomings were: a prepaid medical-insurance program; federal aid to schools; the Truman civil-rights program. He also asked for universal military training, broadening of social security, extension of reciprocal trade treaties for three years. He wanted repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and re-enactment of the Wagner Act with some "improvements" such as a ban on jurisdictional strikes. Then he called for new taxes to raise $4 billion in additional revenues and five days later sent along a 1,400-page budget to explain it. He no longer advocated, as he had last year...
Change in Climate. Being neither a philosopher nor an economist, practical Harry Truman did not bother to characterize his program in philosophical terms. Actually, the State of the Union message, put together by Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford and polished by Sam Rosenman, old Roosevelt speech-polisher, was a familiar and almost dogged reiteration of virtually everything Harry Truman had been recommending for the past two years. Obviously what made everyone sit up and take notice of it this time was the fact that Harry Truman was putting it before a Democratic Congress which might very well give him a number...
History Professor John K. Fairbank, professor of Government, Rupert Emerson, and Edwin O. Reischauer of the History department will appear in a symposium on the Far Eastern problem. Bruce Hopper and Carl J. Friedrich, both professors of Government, will also take part in the school's program...