Word: forrester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Totalitarian arguments," huffed Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune. A work of amateurs and professors, said Wilbur Forrest, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (which the report had criticized as a do-nothing group). But Forrest's own paper, the New York Herald Tribune (he is its assistant editor) argued that the commission's findings could not be dismissed as "mere professional whimsy." Said the Trib: the press does have a responsibility to its public, a responsibility that outweighs a publisher's caprices, and "this responsibility is often neglected or flouted...
Senators strolled wearily out to the cloakrooms, strolled back in again at the double clang of the quorum bell, while Missouri's tireless Republican Forrest Donnell droned through his exhaustive "introduction" to the bill to outlaw portal-to-portal pay suits, kept the floor for the better part of three days. Grumbled one Senator: "We ought to meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and let Donnell meet on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday...
Suddenly a flickering, ethereal light danced about the venerable head of Rural Dean Cyril A. Wheeler. The back of his snowy surplice had burst into flame from a nearby candle. The dean looked startled, but stood quietly as Leighton's quick-thinking Vicar S. John Forrest hurried over and began beating him on the back with a hymnbook. In a moment the crisis was over. As the solemn Requiem Mass swept sonorously on ("Yet, good Lord, in grace complying, rescue me from fires undying"), Dean Wheeler hurried out to don a new surplice. "I felt unusually warm," he explained...
...Lions, who clinched the league championship last week, will be playing their final game of the season, and Coach Forrest Ridings is expected to open all the scoring valves in his effort to reverse the Varsity's upset of his charges two weeks...
...details had been worked out in scores of conferences between Major General Lauris Norstad, one of the Army's keenest strategists, and Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman, an airborne sailor who has long been Fleet Admiral Nimitz' brain trust. Sitting in, when higher echelons were called for, were Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal and the Army's W. Stuart Symington, Assistant Secretary...