Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike U.S. journalists, who are hired by the whim or good judgment of their editors, Japanese journalists are traditionally hired on the basis of formal examinations. Recently, 488 selected applicants for ten reporting jobs on Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun demonstrated their ability at composition, foreign language, Japanese vocabulary, dictation & rewrite...
...most routine of matters. Shortly before the traditional White House call last week by the Justices of the Supreme Court, Harry Truman was listening to the broadcast of the deciding World Series game. Someone called attention to his business suit, and remarked that the Justices would soon arrive, in formal attire. Harry Truman dashed upstairs to change into striped trousers and a cutaway coat. But at the reception, the only person in full formal dress was Harry Truman. (Justice Jackson had put on striped trousers, but compromised with a black sack coat...
...York City's Acting Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri presented to the U.N.'s big, bluff Secretary General Trygve Lie an enormous gilt key to the New York City building on the Fairgrounds. ¶ Mr. Impellitteri and Park Commissioner Robert Moses also made a formal offer to give the U.N. the 350 acres of Flushing Meadow Park, if the U.N. would choose it as a permanent site. Nourished in the bosom of an urban community, the New York officials believed, the U.N. would find 350 acres enough. ¶Since the U.N. will remain in the New York area...
Citing as an example the New York Times correspondent in Prague, who told him that "the war is already on, we are only waiting for a formal declaration," Cater asserted that among official and unofficial Americans in Europe the kind of talk that Henry Wallace hit at--the war is here attitude--was already common. This point of view, Cater said, was definitely not prevalent in the student representative, and that real hope existed for the maintenance of peace if there could be free exchange of thought between students of the world...
...quite settled in his first contact with New England, Bill Barclay, Crimson's new basketball coach, took over formal control of the embryo court squad in the initial turnout last night, and promptly proceeded to outline his outlook and plans for the coming season, which starts two weeks after the close of the football wars...