Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, to shift the morgue to new and larger quarters. Their cargo had been-and still is-separated into four major categories: 1) books (standard reference works and pamphlets on all phases of world doings); 2) periodicals (the most important U.S. and foreign magazines and trade journals); 3) subject file (general material on everything from Absinthe to Zoos); 4) biographical file (information on well known peopie, living or dead, from AE, Irish Poet George William Russell's pseudonym, to Zworykin, Vladimir K., Russian-born U.S. physicist...
Finding this raw material quickly and completely demands patience, imagination and a real knowledge of the resources of the morgue each librarian is responsible for. Their work, however, would be painfully handicapped if the morgue were left to sprout at will. To keep it vigorous, its files have to be constantly pruned of dead material. For example, although some 600 new names are added to the biography file every month, an equal number of folders whose subjects are no longer of news interest are weeded out - illustrative, perhaps, of a journalistic axiom that it takes a very staunch, or lucky...
...long step forward. Its key provisions: ¶ Reduce the crazy-quilt of standing committees from 48 to 19 in the House, from 33 to 15 in the Senate. ¶ Limit most Senators to service on two committees, most Representatives to one. ¶Registration of lobbyists, requiring them to file detailed accounts...
Nobody believes Tass's excess file is wasted. Being a Government agency, Tass serves the Kremlin as much as it does the press; and the Kremlin's vast intake can move quickly and cheaply by press rates, Tassmen get to see a lot of things Russian diplomats might...
...party leadership has been under pressure from the rank-&-file, millions of whom are so new to the party that they still think for themselves. The militant members did not relish the idea of tame Communist participation in a government headed by moderate Georges Bidault. To appease this sentiment, the party's legislative leader Jacques Duclos (who knows better) permitted an all-out Communist effort to prevent the seating of certain Rightist deputies elected by the people...