Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman. With his very first words, the President's 25,217,500 listeners* heard a Truman they had never heard before. Said he: "The crisis of Pearl Harbor was the result of action by a foreign enemy. The crisis tonight is caused by a group of men within our own country...
...Confirmed the appointments of: 1) Pennsylvania's Congressman John W. Murphy, Democratic member of the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee (which finished hearings last week after taking more than 8,500,000 words of testimony), as U.S. District Judge for middle Pennsylvania; 2) Harvard Law School Dean James M. Landis, Roosevelt brain-truster, former head of SEC and OCD, to membership on the Civil Aeronautics Board. CJ Received from the Banking Committee a bill to raise the price of silver from 71? to $1.29 an ounce within two years...
...instance, the Pearl Harbor investigation was the biggest running Congressional story in years. It was confused, difficult to understand and report. Most newspaper reporters tried to tell the story coherently, and did a good job with contradictory testimony that virtually defied untangling in the time they had to do it. But for the man who knew only what he read daily in the papers, it was tough going...
...good many of you have said that TIME told the Pearl Harbor story about as plainly and accurately as it could told. How many telephone calls, cables, how much research and plain reporting that took is not precisely calculable, but our National Affairs editor says that it was plenty. And that kind of verification goes on here week in and week out. For instance, I have been going over the scores of telegrams and cables asking our bureaus and correspondents here and abroad for verification of facts for a recent issue. Here are some of them...
...Snyder predicted that some 2,080,000 young men & women will want to get in next fall-and there will be room for only 1,600,000. Among the 480,000 turned away will be 270,000 veterans. The U.S. college population, which increased 600% from 1900 to Pearl Harbor, is now about to double-and will stay that...