Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civilian upperclassmen will not register until Monday, when classes start. Their registration will be a very brief one, with only a ten minute one-card job involved. It will be held in New Lecture Hall from 10 to 5 o'clock...
...pursuit of this policy, Stalin and Molotov welcomed Joachim von Ribbentrop to the Kremlin and launched out upon the Soviet Union's brief and fateful course of collaboration with Nazi Germany. Five weeks before Hitler attacked the U.S.S.R., Stalin took over the Premiership from Molotov, assigned him primarily to Foreign Affairs. In May 1942 Foreign Commissar Molotov climbed into a four-motored bomber, flew west to seek friends...
...Navy plane flew into Detroit's City Airport from Washington one noon last week. Out hopped a Navy officer, a bulging brief case under his arm. He stepped into a car, sped to the Navy's $60,000,000 arsenal, operated by the Hudson Motor Car Co. There he pulled sheaves of mimeographed notices from his brief case, ordered them distributed to arsenal officials and workers. The notice: "The Navy Department has determined that it is to the best interests of the Government to change the operating management of the Naval Ordnance Plant...
...judicial power to impeach and try U.S. civil officers. The President nominates Federal judges, but the Senate must approve them. The President can affect or control legislation, partly through his power as a party head with patronage to dispense, and partly by exercise of the veto. In brief, there are checks and balances within the tripartite system of checks and balances. A President can have his way in the conduct of foreign affairs up to a point. But he must always worry about the jealousy of the U.S. Senate, which has the ultimate power in the making of treaties...
...Government's 14,000-word brief had charged that the Associated Press was a monopoly. A.P.'s 7,000-word answer had denied it. For more than a year a most eminent three-judge Federal Court in Manhattan had studied vast quantities of evidence. Last week it gave its Solomonic decision, in one of the most historic of lawsuits. A.P. had lost. But A.P. and democracy had also...