Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cynical Turning. Could the Democratic Party have avoided its civil war? The usual omens of political debacle were missing. The nation was prosperous at home, was working out a popularly approved program for decisive action abroad. On the face of it, Harry Truman himself seemed like a candidate who might have pleased all factions...
...like the big-city bosses, could recognize him as a regular party man (unlike Franklin Roosevelt, who was regular only when it suited him). The old New Dealers might have been expected to applaud a President who had plumped hard for price controls, civil rights, and a big housing program. Labor might have been expected to rally around the man who had vetoed the hated Taft-Hartley law, had thrice vetoed what he called a rich man's tax bill...
Simple Issue. Negro witnesses demanded that Harry Truman's full civil rights program be built into the platform without qualifications. Said Dr. Channing Tobias, Negro educator and member of the President's Civil Rights Commission: "I say the issue is simple because it is this: either Negro Americans are citizens of the United States or they are not. If they are, then they are entitled to all the rights of citizenship. If they are not, then it is only fair that our government publish to the world that it has two classes of citizens...
...half-hour program that followed was the first installment in the University of Louisville's twice-weekly "radio-assisted correspondence course" in "Problems of Modern Society." It included a chorus of All Hail to You, Dear U. of L., a talk by Louisville's unshrinking President John W. Taylor, and instructions on how to enroll (to sign up, just tear off and send in a registration blank; for college credit, enclose $30 tuition and you will get study materials, written assignments and, in due course, exams). Negroes, who by state law are forbidden to study in the same...
...reasons were plain. The defense program needed only about 2% of anticipated steel production this fiscal year, and will need less than 3% in the following. For the sake of efficiency, the President assigned the job of filling such relatively small needs to the Department of Commerce, which is already supervising a number of voluntary programs, instead of to the Secretary of Defense, as he could have done under the new law. But he warned: "I have given serious consideration to the problems posed by this legislation. I am, of course, prepared to exercise this authority should it prove necessary...