Conversation on war, happiness, religion and Russia
Excerpted reflections from a roundtable talk among ex servicemen touching on whether there will be another war, the link between education and happiness, and the nature of religion with a philosophy of nature. The piece also notes Moscow conference dispatches claiming Russia's reparations from Germany may exceed the allotted share.
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Washington
Phiophy
Supreme Court
God
Russia
Moscow
Molotov
Yalta
Germany
National Science Foundation debate and Hollywood taxes
Hearings before the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee consider creating a National Science Foundation. Kilgore's plan favored public access to discoveries, while Mills proposes a private boards with no safeguards. NAM opposes Kilgore. debate pits public funding against business control. In other news, Virginia journalists visit, cancer research fund support, and Treasury moves to collect back taxes from Hollywood over capital gains.
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House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
National Science Foundation
Science-Foundation
West Virginia
Harley Kilgore
Senate
White House
Kilgore
Wilbur Mills
Arkansas
National Association of Manufacturers
NAM
Sam Goldwyn
Treasury
Goldwyn
Los Angeles
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Hollywood Drug Stores
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Paul Mallon
Fara Vay
Western Newspaper Union
God and the Universe
Mystery House
Fifth Avenue
Langley
Homer Collyer
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Langley Collyer
Babe Ruth
Danny Grieve
Shelley Davis
Swat
Happy” Chandler
United States
Reichstag
Hitler
Peter Bond
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
The
House
Communist Party
Nancy Anderson
Secretary of Agriculture
Clinton P. Anderson
Gerald Landis
Rep
Ind
House Labor Committee
U. S
William C. Bullitt
UN American Activities Committee
New York City
Scientific Bedfellows
Democracy AT Work
Virginia Press Association
Charles Sans
Girard d’Orgeville
Daphne Dailey
Bowling Green
Caroline Progress
American Field Service
USA
Harold D. Smith
Bronx Veterans’ Hospital
Dorchester
John P. Washington
Newark
N. J
Alexander Goode
York
George L. Fox
Cambridge
Clark V. Poling
Schenectady
N. Y
Hollywood
Treasury Department
Ernest King
Argentia
Potsdam
Newfoundland
King
Ernest Dupuy
Herbert Bregstein
Bonner Cedar CO
Sandpoint
Idaho
Mo. Steel & Wire Co
N. Broadway
St. Louis
Ceenn
East
Washington Street
Leat & Guntzler
Saint Louis
Lowe’s
Dept
Holland Bidg
St. Louis 1
LA Gfeed
Prunty Rayo
Eddy
Roko Company
Baltimore
Kansas City
Blade
Chandler Distributors
Broadway
Bierman Iron & Metal Co., Ing
McKinley Bridge
Hall St
Doans
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