Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...face of such a record, Harry Truman found it politic last week to yield a point. Because the State Department's files of these 81 had been examined by Congress prior to the establishment of the loyalty program, he was opening them again to the Tydings committee. McCarthy promptly changed that it was a "phony offer of phony files...
Crying economy, some Republicans had hacked away at the program's main trunk -funds for ECA. Most Senators agreed with ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman that the foreign aid was not charity but self-protection; the difficulty was that Europe, being in no one's constituency, had to be debated on its own merits alone. Missouri's James Kem wanted to slash off $1 billion. Ohio's Taft offered an amendment to knock off $500 million, about 16½% of the total. He would favor cutting "every reducible appropriation," foreign & domestic, Taft declared, by just about that percent...
Tucked in with EGA, the President's Point Four program, to give technical aid to backward areas and encourage U.S. private investments abroad, squeaked through (37-36) to become duly authorized for the first time by Congress. The Senate voted the $45 million Harry Truman asked for; since the House authorized only $25 million, the difference will have to be fought out in conference...
...security) for workers over 65, improved medical and hospital insurance. Reuther claimed that the union had won the 10?-an-hour in benefits that it sought (it had already won 10? from Ford, hopes to win a better deal from G.M.), but one expert guessed that the same welfare program which costs Ford 10? will cost Chrysler, because of its younger labor force, only six or seven cents. Anyway, said Reuther, Chrysler workers had won a victory in "a great human crusade to build a better tomorrow." The strike, countered Chrysler Vice President Herman L. Weckler, was not a victory...
Under the compromise bill now before the legislature, the Commissioner of Correction would still have nominal control of day work, and "lifers" would be excluded from the program. Any fears about possible unfair labor practices in the expansion of the conditional placement program have been allayed: The Bill guarantees that Reformatory inmates will not work for less than the prevailing wage, and prevents them from being hired as strike breakers. The A.F.L., C.I.O. and 45,000 petitioners have out in support of the bill...