Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time to watch Franklin Roosevelt is when he is in just such a lightsome mood. Correspondents watched & listened when the Christian Science Monitor's Richard Strout put a grave question. Did the President plan to invite Wendell Willkie to the White House to fashion "a common front" on foreign affairs, take that momentous subject out of roiling campaign politics? Mr. Roosevelt said he had not thought about it, but would be very glad to see Mr. Willkie (who had said in Philadelphia that he would be delighted to see Mr. Roosevelt). The correspondents marked a Roosevelt-Willkie conference large...
...will enforce this new regulation through its 27 offices and seven monitor stations throughout the country. With no alien operator among the hams, and 7,500 of them in the Naval Communication Reserve and the Army Amateur Radio System, it is unlikely that FCC suspects any strong fifth-column virus in their ranks. Largely precautionary, FCC's new ruling is designed to make quisling hams stand out boldly if they attempt any aerial shenanigans with Governments abroad...
...France, the first known casualties of the war among newsmen occurred on a road between Verdun and Paris. An Army truck ran broadside into a press car carrying John Elliott of the New York Herald Tribune, William Henry Chamberlin of the Christian Science Monitor. Elliott was hospitalized with cuts from flying glass, a broken bone in his foot. Chamberlin escaped with a few small cuts...
While vague and wishful stories out of Stockholm insisted that Germany's lines of communication with Oslo had been cut by a British fleet, Veteran Stowe spent four days in Oslo (with Warren Irvin of National Broadcasting Co., Christian Science Monitor's Edmund Stevens) and watched five more Nazi transports nose their way up Oslo Fjord...
Tall, grey Richard Lee Strout, Washington correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, and editor of Maud, 1939 non-fiction bestseller, is well and widely acquainted in the Capital. Correspondent Strout even knows inaccessible, flinty, old (77) James Clark McReynolds, lonesome last conservative on the U. S. Supreme Court (TIME, Dec. 4). Last week Newshawk Strout, striding through last-minute Christmas shopping, encountered the hawk-faced Justice in a toy store off Pennsylvania Avenue. After an exchange of season's greetings, Reporter Strout probed: buying gifts for others? No, said Justice McReynolds-a gift for himself. To a clerk...