Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...before he left the President had several matters to consider. Foremost among them was how to finance the U. S. Government and its defense program next year. To an informal White House supper went Congressional chiefs of the revenue committees, Treasury and Budget Bureau heads: Mississippi's Pat Harrison, Georgia's Walter George, of Senate Finance; North Carolina's Robert Doughton, Tennessee's Jere Cooper, of House Ways & Means; Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Assistant Secretary John L. Sullivan; Budget Director Harold Smith. Their problem was to raise a hoped-for $10,000,000,000 of Federal...
...White House went Martin Dies, fuming with defiance. Out last week was a 1,000-page Dies Committee report on Communism in the U. S. It outlined the program of the Communist Party, named names, charged the Reds with plotting to disrupt defense industries, destroy the morale of the armed forces of the U. S., discourage enlistments, foment civil war. Popping with ideas, Dies, in Texas, had telegraphed the President for a conference...
Last week in Manhattan some 300 delegates assembled in a Woman's Centennial Congress to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the struggle. It was a strange, emotional gathering, in which common-sensical and acute analyses of woman's position in the modern world contrasted with a vague program of action. It began with foreign delegates reporting on the status of women and of the women's movement under totalitarianism. It ended, after about 20 hours of speechmaking and report-reading, with a Declaration of Purpose: ". . . to use our freedom to support, defend and preserve the Constitution...
This week, as in 1917, high on Army's headache list is a shortage of good corporals, sergeants and second lieutenants, without which Army's whopping training program may well founder. To get noncoms and shavetails in quantity, Army bosses may well have to junk some tenets of promotion by seniority. Stock Army retort to suggestions of promotion for merit has long been that such a system would encourage political toadying; but low-bracket officers must be found, even if dull-witted veterans are passed over to commission brainy tenderfeet. To ferret out officer material, all rookies...
After the conference, members of the university and their families have been invited to attend a special musical program at the Memorial Church. The Harvard Glee Club will sing, under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, professor of Music...