Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harddriving, shrewd Lord Beaverbrook (London Daily Express, Evening Standard) moved to double the Express' U.S. staff. He added a reporter to his one-man Washington bureau, planned to inaugurate a San Francisco office, make two or three more men available for national coverage out of New York City. Explained Cecil Vincent Raymond Thompson, chief of the Express' Manhattan bureau: "The idea is to increase the quality more than the quantity of output ... to provide the best possible inside on America for Britain...
About six weeks ago the four-page Express started a daily back-page column of comment on the U.S. which is supplemented by special articles. Last month Beaverbrook ordered his ace war correspondent, Alan Moorehead, from the Egyptian battlefront to the U.S. for a series of pieces on America's war effort...
...perhaps the first time in the state's history voters of Massachusetts on November 3 were given the opportunity to express their opinion on U.S. foreign policy. The question voted on in 340 of the state's 487 precinets follows: "Shall the Representatives in the General Court from this district be instructed to vote the request the President and Congress to call at the earliest possible moment a convention of Representatives of all free peoples to frame a Federal Constitution under which they may unite in a Democratic World Government?" Vote in favor of Democratic World Federation: 140,967. Against...
...text of the telegram is as follows: "The Harvard Student Council desires to express the opposition of Harvard students to the Sentate amendment tot he 18-19 draft bill, which prohibits sending men under twenty years old overseas without a year's training.--Thomas Matters, president...
...supposed antipathy of the highbrow "classicists" to all forms of popular music is a strangely persistent myth that keeps cropping up all the time in writings and discussions about jazz. Last Monday's interesting "Swing" column, for instance, used the phrases "blinded by tastes" and "overexposure to culture" to express what a lot of people honestly and unthinkingly believe, that classical music, in contrast to popular but ungrammatical jazz, is some sort of esoteric cubbyhole where a number of aesthetes hide away from the common emotions...