Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...profit by Southeast Asia's anti-Chinese feelings-a policy that could backfire as disastrously as any other antinational or anti-racial approach-the traveler seemed to have had his eyes open. The discouraging impression which the traveler left was that it was impossible to outline a decisive program for the containment of Communism in Asia. The U.S. was still not far away from the handwringing stand it held while the Communists in China gave the Western world its most disastrous defeat in the cold...
...ineffective, he has learned how to work with his colleagues, to accept the slowness of Senate processes, and to keep his ulcers from acting up. In White House conferences, he gives President Truman an honest count, even when it is painful. He fought gallantly for the civil rights program, beat off crippling amendments aimed at ECA, even went to a Republican caucus to plead for a liberalized D.P. bill. Not brilliant, he is a slogging, dogged fighter...
...canebrake, Southern Congressmen pushed through a bill to allow cotton growers to sow 1,200,000 more acres of this already too plentiful crop, with guarantees of government price support. They also managed to increase peanut planting (another so-called "basic" crop) by 100,000 acres. What the farm program (a bipartisan measure) would cost this year no one could say. To take care of it, the House, by voice vote, unhesitatingly increased CCC's borrowing power another $2 billion...
...What Mockery, What Doubletalk." As the thrashing in the bushes became more violent, the Administration suffered one sharp setback. It had demanded a $2 billion cooperative housing program for people of middle incomes ($60-$75 a week). Real estate operators, with some logic, called the program "inflationary," with some emotion dubbed it "socialistic," and succeeded in getting the measure killed out of the Senate's overall housing bill. From Key West, Harry Truman wrote a plea to Administration leaders on the Hill to save the program in the House. All veterans' organizations were for it, the A.F.L...
Jack Benny Program (Sun. 7 p.m., CBS). Guest: Al Jolson...