Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, in answer to Harry Truman's summons. Facing his ex-colleagues, the President then asked for the most sweeping controls over the U.S. economy which had ever been demanded by a President in peacetime. Congressmen, who had returned to Washington with their minds on the European Recovery Program-which most favored-could hardly believe what they heard...
...million, six-year program for OIC was proposed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt, one of the few Republicans who had fought the curtailment. Recently returned from a tour of 22 European nations, he told the committee: "We are filling their stomachs while the Communists are filling their minds...
Brazilians generally agreed that Octávio Mangabeira was the man to get the democratic lines together on a sound program. He knew politics, from the ward to the chancellery, and he had seen the world-by request. His traveling days began unexpectedly back in 1930 when Dictator Vargas rode into Rio at the head of his gauchos and kicked out President Washington Luiz and cabinet, including Foreign Minister Mangabeira. For the next four years, Mangabeira lived in eleven European countries. He went back to Brazil, spurned a Vargas peace offering and had the courage to blackball the dictator...
...second course of Mr. Coward's current offering brings to light a program more varied in scope than the first, and presents an excellent opportunity for the author-director to display not only variations in his writing but still in handling on the stage his intricate and often most delicately balanced dialogue and situation...
Second on the program is "Fumed Oak," a low pitched middle-class drama which almost succeeds by contrast to the first offering only to father at the final curtain when Coward steps the action dead to allow his here to unwind the lives of the participants. Philip Tonge and Miss Lawrence play off beautifully against each other, but they are helpless in the face of the recurrent Coward tendency to be patronizing to the lower classes...