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...John Quincy Adams, who died at 80 as a Congressman, had an eye for the female form. (Excerpts from his diary: Miss Frazier "has what is called a genteel shape"; Miss Cazneau "has nothing in her person to recommend her but a very good shape. . . . Mrs. Jones . . . exhibited an arm . . . which might fire the imagination of a sensual voluptuary...
...John R. Steelman, the President's assistant, who will keep the White House informed on scientific doings. Government agencies concerned with science (from Agriculture to Veterans Administration) will supply one member each to sit on the committee. The principal duties of the committee: to coordinate federal research, recommend new projects, keep in touch with non-Government scientists through their learned societies...
Eccles flatly said that he "would not recommend" using this power. FRB was still frightened by the slumps of 1920 and 1929. A big boost in rediscount rates had preceded them, and many still blamed the credit curb for the slumps...
...have never asked for nor received, an allotment by the Student Council from its Service Fund. We, however, shall be glad to recommend to the 1948 Seal Sale Committee that it take the matter up with the Student Council...
...House got in the first and most serious licks. Its Foreign Affairs Committee, in a turbulent closed meeting, tentatively agreed to recommend a bill authorizing an expenditure of only $489 million. Italy's budget would bear the brunt of this slash. All told, Italy would be cut $87 million (from $227 to $140 million), on the grounds that 1) her farmers were hoarding around a million tons of wheat, and 2) her outlook for olive oil production was much improved...