Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind these smiling faces and smitten backs were sullen tempers that threatened to ignite a partisan hotfoot and turn the session into a bitter political battlefield (see cut). Southern Senators had agreed on the strategy to be used against any civil-rights program-Harry Truman's or the Republicans': filibuster at the first show of a bill. Most Republicans, taking their cue from noncommittal Tom Dewey, were waiting for the reaction to Harry Truman's message to Congress; but among them there was also heady talk of forcing a swift adjournment...
...worked all week on his message, brushing up its language during a weekend cruise on the Potomac. The speech would go back over most of the same ground he had already covered at Philadelphia (TIME, July 26): federal aid to education, an increased minimum wage, a civil-rights program. Two added starters: approval of the international wheat agreement and the $65 million loan to build U.N.'s permanent headquarters...
...unknown was the anti-inflation section. But Harry Truman was going to wade right into two of the hottest issues of the campaign: housing and high prices. His message asked for passage of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill and most of the ten-point anti-inflation program he had put before Congress last fall, including standby authority to ration and control the prices of scarce commodities "which vitally affect . . . health and welfare...
...frustrated. Talk of impending war reminded them of how weak they were. This fear could be turned into an asset by the anti-Communist nations if it gave to Western Union a sense of urgency, if it could be quickly translated into a real political, military and economic program for a Western Union which would be far stronger than the sum of its parts...
Hollywood Bowl Symphony (Sun. p.m., CBS). Eugene Ormandy conducting an all-Tchaikovsky program...