Word: greate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story called for great collaboration. National Affairs Writer Paul O'Neil, who was a reporter for the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer before coming to work for TIME, flew to Los Angeles to make his own preliminary investigation of the city. He discussed his impressions with the members of the Los Angeles bureau, who then set to work digging out the facts. Bureau Chief Fritz Goodwin divided the coverage four ways between himself and reporters Alfred Wright, Edwin Rees and James Murray. It was an especially engrossing assignment for all of them because it gave them a chance...
...Sophoulis' death (TIME, July 4), King Paul asked Foreign Minister Constantin ("Dino") Tsaldaris, a Populist (right-winger), to form a new cabinet. In his eagerness, Dino promised portfolios to 27 of his friends. At the last minute, he found there were only 25 ministerial posts to fill. With great presence of mind, Tsaldaris simply created two new cabinet posts-Tourism and Physical Culture...
Tshekedi ranged all his authority and prestige against Seretse. "Chiefs pass and are forgotten, but the country goes on," he said. "Custom has been broken. It was a great wrong marrying this white woman. My nephew has killed us. He has made a precedent that the chief can marry without regard to or consent of the tribe." He insisted on a divorce: "The white woman is not suitable for Seretse and the tribe...
...would prevent unions from using their funds to support strikes called during arbitration proceedings. Most of Australian labor supported the bill. It passed without dissent. Cried Labor M.P. Leslie Haylen: "Reds act here as in Berlin. They choose the depth of a hard winter to try and suborn a great community by privation and attrition...
...Months of negotiation finally produced the North Atlantic Treaty, a defensive alliance which at the outset would include the U.S., Great Britain, and all but one of these...