Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maintain the basic U.S. position, he had to insist that Japan get out of China and stay out of the East Indies, but he had no big stick. The Army & Navy wanted soft talk, to give them more time. So did the British, the Dutch. Mr. Hull could not explain to the U.S. public that oil and scrap iron shipped to Japan were not meant to purchase peace but to buy time. His position was made torture by public clamor for a "strong stand" and by Chinese pressure for vigorous action...
Though Author de Sales finds World War II multidimensional, he finds "nothing local or episodic" in it. He deprecates concentrating on certain aspects of the war to the exclusion of others. "I would even say that it is impossible to explain the times we are living in if we adhere to any particular point of view, be it national or political...
Following up the recently announced War Department plan to recruit men in colleges in order to meet the increasing needs of the Army Air Forces for air and ground crews, Elliott Perkins, Faculty Air Force adviser, stated yesterday that Lieutenant-Colonel John J. Keough '25 of Westover Field will explain the new program to undergraduates next Monday in Emerson D, at 7:30 o'clock. Enlistments will take place on the 8th and 9th of May, at which time the Army hopes to fill its quota...
...recent overtime pay controversy, when the A.F. of L. resorted to paid newspaper advertisements to explain its case, lit a fire under labor's radio thinkers. Meanwhile, NBC Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn had worked himself up to a jeremiad against the unions. The unions thereby acquired another talking point, if they wanted one, in their case for a labor interval on the radio...
Despite its shallow quality, this khaki serial may well explain many perplexing army matters to womenfolk who are worried about their men in the armed forces...