Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blonde, pleasant-looking girl in a summer print dress studied the bulletin board. For the first time she was seeing her name in print the way she had always wanted: Margaret Truman billed as soloist with Eugene Ormandy and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra...
Situations Wanted. Despondent Star staffers got the news in a terse bulletin-board message. The stockholders propose to hand out $75,000 in severance pay to some 200 among the 235 employees. The printing forces will be absorbed around town, but few Star newsmen can soundly hope to catch on with the Times or Hearst's morning Post-Intelligencer...
...Something Wrong." As long as he could, School Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard kept mum. The issue was a "family matter," he insisted, and not one for public debate. To his surprise, parents of public-school pupils also began to write letters to newspapers. In a special poll, the Bulletin found that a thumping majority of them wanted to abolish the mass-promotion system. Said the 1,000 members of the Big Four Fathers' Association: "We've felt for a long time there was something wrong with the school system. Now, someone has put his finger...
Jessica got delegates out for meetings despite the withering summer heat and a free flow of Scotch, rye, gin and beer. Every morning, as a reminder of the day's program, she had chummily-worded Mimeographed bulletins slipped under hotel-room doors. "Pullleezzzee Gentlemen," the Thursday conference bulletin began. "The session opens at 9:30 this morning. We know it's a crime on a Thursday after a Wednesday night but les affaires sont les affaires...
...week's end a special committee got ready to go to Ottawa to demand a Dominion-subsidized, low cost, low rental housing program. Jessica's last bulletin sped it on its way: "The strength of true democracy lies in sound local government. And the strength of local government lies in cooperative effort...