Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SLIGHT TIME OVERSIGHT IDENTIFIED HOME OF EVERY CREWMAN IN "CHENNAULT'S PAPPY" [TIME, NOV. 30] EXCEPT CAPTAIN ROBERT C. WILLIAMS, PILOT FROM FLINT. WE ARE AS PROUD OF BOB AS WE ARE OF OUR EXCELLENT WAR GOODS. HOWEVER, IF CHOICE MUST BE MADE, WE WOULD PREFER OUR FIGHTERS AND OUR ENEMIES, RATHER THAN TIME, TO HAVE REASON TO REMEMBER FLINT...
From the day they went on the air two years ago, the team of Rodriguez & Sutherland, the Pacific Coast's favorite newscasting team, were headed for trouble. They refused to pull punches. This oversight got them a huge audience, but it cost them sponsors, and last week it cost them the air. Reason: they had criticized the Government gas rationing. Their station (Los Angeles' KECA) fired them-although they may have had other reasons...
...they could not afford to pay Virginia's $1.50 a year (cumulative) poll tax. Juries were generally picked from poll-taxpayers' lists. But though he had made the point, Waller's young trial lawyer had not introduced , proof of it into the record. Because of that oversight, Finerty's appeals for a new trial were denied by one court after another...
...appearance of the objectionable advertisement in yesterday's Crimson was in complete opposition to the Crimson's policy in regard to the subject. That it appeared was due entirely to an oversight which admittedly does not excuse the editors from responsibility, but which will keep them more closely on guard to prevent its repitition in the future...
...baby and pulling a Durbin act calls to mind sweaters, Artic Shaw, and one-month-marriages, thereby wrecking the general effect. There's also a second feature dealing with love in prolix form, a broken engagement and other assorted ho-bum. Lack of Harvard football pictures indicates another oversight on the management's part, no doubt...