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...precautions worked. It was not until the President had to inform U.S. allies of his impending decision that the rumors started to flow. Then the expectation of a bombing halt was frontpage news around the world. factories are operated by women. Monsoon rains and flooding made rice so scarce that prices soared to as much as ten times the official rate. At the same time that the North's military capability has skidded into a downward curve, the South's is on the upswing. According to a Pentagon study conducted by Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Alain Enthoven...
...second from Hadden. As Elson shows, that explanation is too simple. Luce had his share of irreverence, which he encouraged or at least permitted in his magazines; Hadden, on the other hand, was deeply serious beneath his frivolous exterior. They were both earnest about the need to inform America...
When TIME was already a fairly important magazine, Luce did not consider it beneath his dignity to appear at a businessmen's lunch and stage a quiz game to demonstrate the importance of accurate information. Later he was to write that the "invention" involved in TIME lay not in its brevity or in its principle of organizing the news but in its emphasis on the "instructive role of journalism." Still later, in early 1939, when he was displeased with the magazine, he complained: "Somehow it does not give the feel of being desperately, whimsically, absurdly, cockeyedly, whole-souledly determined...
...Harry Parker was concerned, "the issue had just about died when they reached Mexico City." The blacks had refused to inform the Harvard activists what they were considering and there was a total breakdown in communications between the white and black athletes. Hal Connolly, the veteran hammer thrower, was the only white invited to the blacks' meetings so it seemed that Harvard's role as a link and source of information was dead...
...suppose Dow spent $150 to fly me out to Midland and feed and hotel me so I would return to inform the readers of this newspaper that only five per cent of Dow's business is with the federal government, and only one half per cent is napalm. That Dow is good to its employees, and that Dow wishes the war were over as much...