Word: reads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the immediate presentation of a guest speaker saved Littauer from immediate ravage. The guest, after excusing himself as "unprepared for this unexpected situation," took out his speech and read. Its main thesis was that the CCA, if it was allowed to carry through one of its campaign promises to eliminate a particular grade crossing, would ruin the economy of East Cambridge. He explained the boundaries of East Cambridge, which include the Boston and Albany Railroad, the Drainage canal, another railroad and the Charles River, and showed how the proposed change would destroy the basis for the well-being...
Enough Japanese editors had read Reel's book (it was sent to them by the U.S. publishers) to assure that some day, when the Occupation withdrew, it would emerge from censorship. Then, instead of heightening respect for American good faith and readiness to acknowledge a wrong, The Case of General Yamashita might engender a bitter disillusion...
...SCAP has not seen enough of "the sober afterglow" to let the Japanese read Reel's The Case of General Yamashita...
...Groucho likes it fine. "In the old days they almost threw me off the air if I deviated from the script," he says. "I had to sign a written pledge that I would read only what was before me. But now I'm doing what comes naturally. It's like stealing money [$3,000 a week] to get paid for this...
...said Raskob, was save $15 a month, put it into "good common stocks." At the end of 20 years it would have swelled to $80,000 and be yielding $400 a month in income. It was such an easy way to get rich that messenger boys stopped to read the stock-tickers in offices, chauffeurs drove with ears cocked to catch some word of a merger, and elevator operators were never long out of touch with their brokers...