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Word: monitoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powerful old Rules Committee. The committee is the House's traffic cop, assigning right of way to all legislation moving through the House. Dominated by a crusty alliance of Republican and Southern Democratic members, it had often muzzled New Deal legislation when its job was simply to monitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shuffled Furniture | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...clear that Harry Truman was having a hard time letting go of the red herring. Wrote the Christian Science Monitor's Washington chief, Roscoe Drummond: "If the latest results of the committee rightly can be called 'red-herring' stuff, why is the President even talking about arrests and Justice Department action? The truth is that this is not 'red-herring' stuff and the country deserves to have the Administration and the committee dealing with it seriously and soberly, and not with the back of the political wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Durable Herring | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...dollars to get it rolling across the U.S. last year, gathering up 700 carloads of food (worth $40 million) for France and Italy. It was not only potent propaganda for the U.S. in the East-West battle, but a memorable and characteristically Quaker act. Said the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond, of the Friendship Train: "One of the greatest projects ever born of American journalism." Next month, as a Gallic gesture of gratitude, a "Merci, America" train of 49 French boxcars will be shipped across the Atlantic, with such gifts for the 48 states and Hawaii as Sevres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

Other are Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; Wyman Holmes, director of Station WRUL in Boston; and Mrs. Mercy Fogg, an instructor in the Garland School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine New England Teachers Form NSA Advisory council | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

From his plane window 20 miles off, Radiological Monitor Bradley saw the "huge column of clouds, dense, white, boiling up through the strato-cumulus." The next move in Operation Crossroads was his; and a few minutes later he and his plane were flying toward Bikini Atoll and the "evil mushrooming" column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot Spots | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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