Word: informativeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact is that the very worthy American Friends Service Committee, while it has unquestionably been doing valuable work, is by no means the only organization with representatives in France. While I am not qualified to speak on behalf of [other] organizations . . . I can inform you that the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which conducts large-scale relief operations in both Occupied and Unoccupied France, has representatives throughout those territories under the direction of American citizens...
Sfirete detectives, French Legion members (veterans of both World Wars) and Vichy police have comprised an informal French Gestapo to spy and inform upon anti-Vichy tendencies. Vichy's drive to put Jewish businesses under non-Jewish supervisors continued, with more than 265 enterprises added to the list, including a Normandy textile mill and dyeing plant owned by French-Jewish Novelist Andre Maurois...
...fourth estate; it is almost a fourth branch of government. It is not, as in Germany or the U.S.S.R., a branch of the government, .but a part of our constitutional system. It is impossible to imagine governmental processes in the U.S. without a press. Its first function is to inform, its second to criticize. Censorship is a direct threat to both functions and hence a direct threat to effective democracy...
...Arthur V. Davis, chairman of the board of the Aluminum Co. of America . . . and ex plained that I felt that Germany, her allies and conquered territories . . . could produce three times the aluminum that his company was producing in America, and I stated that I thought he should inform our Government of the true situation and not permit us to be caught in the same position as France. I urged him to ask for Government funds sufficient to enable his company to produce 1,000,000,000 lb. of aluminum. . . . Mr. Davis expressed himself that he felt I was unnecessarily alarmed...
...which announced that a young lieutenant disguised as a butler had made his way into enemy headquarters, served a three-course dinner to the commanding general, then put a box of chocolates into the general's bed. Inside the box was a note: "Dear Sir: This is to inform you that this is a bomb which would have exploded when you touched it with your foot. Yours respectfully, Fifth Columnist...