Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was high drama in the denunciation of the Soviet Union by Britain's Hector McNeil while, beside him, Vishinsky sat, chin on hand, glowering through horn-rimmed glasses, only moving to make a penciled note or rasp a quick order over his shoulder to a subordinate. Again, there was a moment of tense comedy as McNeil (looking remarkably like Arthur Godfrey) listened with polite incredulity to Russia's Amazasp Arutiunian, whose hunch-shouldered delivery and darkling glance were strongly reminiscent of the late Fiorello La Guardia...
...talk about inflationary Government spending had grown so loud that even the Administration seemed to be taking note. Last week Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer was back at his desk in Washington after a swing around the country, in which he had dispensed thousands of soothing words into the ears of worried businessmen...
...press, and a fortiori, of thought and opinion, are guaranteed to all Americans by the First Amendment. The only limitation placed upon this freedom is the "clear and present danger" doctrine first enunciated by Justice Holmes in Shenck v. U. S., 249 Us 47 (1919). It is important to note that this doctrine applies when freedom of speech is abused to the point of a person screaming "fire" in a crowded theatre when he knows that no danger of fire exists. It is quite a different matter to apply this limiting doctrine to the realm of free thought and opinion...
...going to miss one student this year," says vice-chairman Leonard C. Gordon '51. The solicitors will keep returning to student rooms every night until they get their man, Gordon said, and if they fail after six days, they'll leave a note in the mailbox...
...whirled off through a busy schedule of sightseeing, wreath-laying and conferences at Mount Vernon, Annapolis and the Pentagon, a formal dinner with Secretary of Slate Dean Acheson. At a luncheon given by the Overseas Writers, the Shah, who learned English in school in Switzerland, struck just the right note by announcing: "You are all, I am told, what is called 'working' newspapermen. I work, too. I can be described, I hope, as a 'working" monarch...