Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...twofold object: "First, he wanted to divert the attention of the American people from difficult and involved inner political problems. . . . Second, by the creation of war opinion and through rumors about the danger threatening Europe, he wanted to get the Amer ican people to accept an enormous arma ment program...
...apply the general $10,000 limit to sugar producers. Crushed, 46-23, he tried for a $50,000 limit, was crushed again, 37-27. Only argument for the huge subsidies was fuzzy : that Hawaiian & Puerto Rican producers, stripped of their fat subsidies, might get miffed, abandon the control program, ruin small domestic producers; i.e., that benefits must be paid foreign producers to persuade them to let U. S. producers exist. No one could understand this; but the Senate has always understood the sugar lobby...
...Politically conscious California no longer sneers at the Okies. Says Philip Bancroft: "They are fine people, farmers, just like ourselves. And it wasn't the Dust Bowl that drove them out of Oklahoma; it was the failure of the New Deal's farm program." Biggest complaint of growers: higher relief rates in California than in Oklahoma and Arkansas...
...Guesses: 1) toward the pro-Roosevelt Democratic slates, 2) toward Arthur Vandenberg. No one expected him to come to the aid of "Buster" Dewey. First guess seemed the best, for Bob La Follette is a veteran New Dealer, strong for every fibre of the President's domestic program, against him on only two major matters: La Follette is isolationist, believes fanatically in an if-you-can't-pay-don't-go fiscal policy. Messrs. Roosevelt & La Follette pair naturally, and each is beholden to the other. Yet Vandenbergers kept up their hopes, issued brave statements in Wisconsin...
Bingham told the Eastern District Convention of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation that Hutchins is "positively convinced that football has no place in a college program, and, since he has the physique of a Sir Galahad, he is convinced that he speaks with authority...