Word: monitoring
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...