Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public hearings on the European Recovery Program ended last week. Before they did, all kinds of citizens had come forward to speak their minds. George P. Murdock, a Yale anthropology professor, thought ERP should be abandoned in favor of "the greatest Red Cross drive in history." Joe Scott, president of the League for an Undivided Ireland, wanted a guarantee that England would get no money to perpetuate Irish partition...
...Colorado's Eugene Millikin, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said reassuringly: "We'll get a bill, and contrary to most superficial impressions, it will be a good bill. It will have a faint umbilical cord to the original State Department program, but in its important respects it will be our bill...
...most fun the Republicans had all week was listening to caterwauling Democrats, squirming under the President's civil-rights program with its proposed elimination of Jim Crowism on railroads and buses. Screams of rage and threats of revolt poured forth from Southern Democrats. Roared Mississippi's Senator James Eastland: "This proves that organized mongrel minorities control the Government." From the House floor, Georgia's Gene Cox chanted: "Sounds like the program of the Communist Party...
...Hope. He sees no hope in U.N. as it is now, calling it "a weak league of sovereign, armed states preparing for war." As his ideas took shape, he framed a program. He wants: 1) an agreement among all nations to surrender their arms to U.N., retaining only a force big enough to keep internal order; 2) a U.N. police force to defend all nations from aggression; and 3) an Assembly acting as the world's chief legislative body, with a Security Council acting as a Cabinet...
Cutting short his sick leave, Bill Pawley went to work. His first step was to document the big fact that the U.S. had failed to get across to latinos: that ERP means U.S. dollars in the Latin American pocket. Assuming that Congress approves the ERP program of buying in Latin America, the latinos will be invited to ship something like $1½ billion of foodstuffs and raw materials to Europe by July 1, 1949. Bill Pawley could point to this breakdown...