Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week delegates got down to business. First item on the agenda was the report of the executive council, which said in part: "The executive council calls upon the officers and members of all organizations affiliated with the A.F. of L. to be vigilant and to guard against the employment of those who for selfish purposes seek to utilize the labor movement for the sole purpose of promoting their material welfare." Absent from the convention were...
...giants was over. Vag picked up the history book and laid it sadly and silently on top of the pile of unanswered letters from home, old laundry bills, and football ticket applications. He picked up the Crimson and glanced idly down the front page, then seized on a small item. All was not lost! The maestro was coming back to give the Freshman a return performance, and Vag had enough of the Freshman in him still to want to join the audience and hear...
...Italians, perturbed by increased sinkings, did take in the national belt. The Cabinet announced that bread-the most important item in the common Italian's diet-would be rationed sharply. Each woman and child was to eat no more than 200 grams a day-about seven ounces, or four dinky rolls. Workers would get 300 grams; heavy laborers, 400 grams. The Cabinet apologized: "The wheat crop was less than the estimates . . . while the needs of the armed forces in occupied territory have mounted...
...telegram insisting that the Government chain had deliberately misquoted him in saying he was going to talk about "America's lack of preparation." CBC acknowledged that it had erred in giving the date of his broadcast (though the network carried it), ducked responsibility for the rest of the item...
...Fadiman has a critical note on each item and an admirable prefatory essay, "My Life Is an Open Book." The preface is a candid and well-reconstructed account of the editor's history as a reader; the sections on childhood-reading are particularly good...