Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George L. Vaughn, a delegate from St. Louis and a member of the credentials committee; he wanted to submit a minority report. The majority had agreed to seat the Mississippi delegation. But the Mississippi delegation, Vaughn charged, intended to walk out if Harry Truman's civil rights program was incorporated into the platform and if Harry Truman was nominated. He recommended, therefore, that the Mississippi delegation "not be seated." He clenched his fist, yelling: "Three million Negroes have left the South since the outbreak of World War II to escape this thing. I ask the convention to give consideration...
Most of last week's first program was a rambling, transcribed classroom bull session, complete with sound of chairs scraping and doors slamming. Its subject: Must we have war with Russia? As it drew to its inconclusive end, the announcer slithered again into his commercial: "Be alert! Be informed! Be able to hold your own in an argument...
...N.E.A. convention asked President Truman for a special session of Congress to pass federal aid to education (a request that Harry Truman wasn't likely to act on). N.E.A. also wanted the U.S. to start a $10 billion school building program, and to fire 100,000 "undertrained" emergency elementary-school teachers...
...entertain people, give them something," Fred Allen cracked, in his disillusioned way. Vacationing on Cape Cod this week, Fred might well recall that crack: a giveaway program had belted Allen all the way down to No. 38 on the Hooperating, moved all the way up into the No. 2 spot itself...
Despite this news of plenty, grain markets held fairly firm. The Department of Agriculture, anxious to keep prices from sliding toward Government-support levels, had paved the way for its rosy estimates. Hinting that any increases in yields might well be absorbed by a broadening of the export program, it saw no reason for "radical downward adjustment in the prices of most crops...