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...from ensign to lieutenant senior grade (pay and allowance: $2,199 to $3,158). Carefully checked by FBI, Navy's censors-to-be study naval regulations, hear lectures by naval intelligence officers, learn to decipher codes. Practice codes are mostly old spy communiques. Example: a harmless-looking news dispatch which dates all the way back to World War I, in which the second letter of each word spells out: "Pershing sails July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship Changes | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

According to a dispatch from the Yale News yesterday, union leaders agred Thursday night to accept the following proposals of the University; Yale promised to consult with union officials regarding wages and hours; the University shall hold an election to determine in what departments the union controls a majority of the workers; and the decision of the election shall for at least three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Strike Averted | 9/27/1941 | See Source »

...soon as it learned of this arresting situation late last night, the editors of the CRIMSON cabled a dispatch to South Hadley, urging the girlies to migrate to Harvard, the Oasis of the East...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO HELP HOLYOKE TO H2O | 9/24/1941 | See Source »

Year ago she was writing a bright little shopping column for the Raleigh (N.C.) Times and Norfolk (Va.) Ledger-Dispatch. Not knowing in her ignorance that such columns usually make their modest living by contracting to advertise the wares of local manufacturers and local shops, she tried plugging nationally advertised products. Retailers loved it, paid her well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: National Shopper | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...Stockholm reported acute Norwegian food shortages. Producers, the dispatch said, refused to produce, preferring to starve rather than feed the invaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Disorder | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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