Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event of Russian military power not being decisively broken by the end of November he will be prepared to offer terms of peace to Russia which would be acceptable to the Soviet Union. As an additional inducement there would be an offer of a ten-year, non-aggression pact from Japan as well as Germany...
Present plans call for 9 to 12 o'clock transmission five nights a week during the summer, as is done during pre-exam reading periods. This, of course, will be changed in event of strict "lights-out" enforcement by training school authorities. Technical work is still to be handled by physics-minded men, but, as is the case with many draft-struck organizations, talented young Cliffe-dwellers will do more of the planning, acting, and preliminary writing...
...main event on the program was the donning of a rubber Willkie mask by one of the performers, followed by the throwing out of the first ball in the Winthrop House extra-softball season in the traditional F.D.R. manner. The two men concluded the performance by jumping to the ground; training for the parachute troops no doubt...
...from admitting that it is a source of news, A.P. insists that "the source of news lies in the event itself. Access to the source of news is open to all who are willing to expend time, effort and money. News is, therefore, a product which . . "belongs to the producer." In short, A.P. sensibly claims that news events cannot be monopolized. This view does not grapple with the charge, which is that the means of spreading the news is monopolized. Another A.P. argument is that "if the news gathered [by] A.P. and its members were required to be made available...
...from laughing when he ties the shoelace on a third foot which appears from under a sofa. As a foreign correspondent, Hope, who could easily receive the award for the world's worst newspaperman, has been in Europe, where he has managed to miss out on almost every important event, including the beginning of the Russian War. He dubs this a vicious rumor. His paper, the Amalgamated Press, recalls him and in a few brief words, Hope is ejected from the office by a none too friendly managing editor...