Word: informant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that are shaking my typewriter, and my hands, which are wet with nervous perspiration, tell me without the need of an official communique that the war ... is today in the outskirts of this bastion of empire. . . . Don't expect to hear from me for many days, but please inform Mrs. McDaniel . . . that I have left this land of the living & dying...
...British Navy bungling escape notice. It was revealed last week that the warship which took Winston Churchill to the U.S. was supposed to pick up a British destroyer escort near the Azores. The destroyers did not show up. Lest enemy agents inform Axis submarines of the warship's presence near the islands, the ship proceeded unescorted...
...Japanese radio, devious by habit and well coached by the Nazis, could boast several propaganda exploits. It cut in on the Far Eastern beam of California's KGEI to give phony "flashes" on the "bombing" of San Francisco. It presented an American "Lady Haw-Haw" to inform America of the "annihilation" of the U.S. fleet. Last week it fished for U.S. listeners by promising to announce the names of prisoners "as soon as they are available" -i.e., in driblets, to keep the audience tuned...
...your issue of Dec. 29 you inform your readers that ". . . TIME finds itself unable to tell its readers freely and frankly all the things it knows." In time of war that is just as well. In the same issue there appears a typical TIME article: "Civilian Defense-Confused & Unprepared." Is this article wise, considered and constructive in time of war? How carefully did you consider the effect that it would have in enemy countries...
Gold Coasters vociferously denied any psychopathic tendencies at their House. Mr. Little prepared to inform the Bureau of its mistake and return unanswered the forms asking for the number of manic-depressive, schizophrenic, senile and traumatic patients--also alcoholics...