Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Nelson Rockefeller, 42, hard-working second of John D. Jr.'s five sons, longtime professional "good neighbor" to Latin America, accepted the chairmanship of the advisory board of the Administration's Point Four program (which provides technical aid to underdeveloped countries). At his press conference, Truman said Rockefeller had agreed to be managing director of the Point Four program, but the later White House official announcement indicated nothing of the sort. Washington insiders thought that it was probably a slip of presidential timing, not tongue, believed that Rockefeller would eventually be eased into the top job, now being...
...incident was only one result of the armed forces' haphazard and unfair reserve program. Reaching in all directions for men the armed forces had grabbed blindly in the direction of some 2,500,000 reservists. Thousands were called up, given no idea when they would get out. While Selective Service was deferring non-reservists with dependents, reservists with dependents were hustled into uniform...
George Marshall's greatest concern was that irreparable damage had already been done to the country's reserve program. When reservists now on duty were released, few of them would feel like staying on in the services. Said a Pentagon officer: "After this experience, nine out of ten of them will run for the hills...
...solidly Spanish and loyally so. "I think there could be no greater mistake than to suppose that Spanish Protestants constitute any kind of focus of revolt against the present regime, even though . . . they favor a kind of civil and religious liberty which is wholly alien to its program...
...repression of non-Catholicism was so ruthless. How long would such a leader as Luther, he asks, "have lasted in the fires of an auto-da-fé at Seville? Or, even if he had been made of asbestos, what role would he ... have played in Ferdinand's program of national unification by compulsory religious solidarity...