Word: recording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editors, had a two-hour interview with Judge Harold Medina in his chambers. Two days later he finished his draft of the Medina cover story (TIME, Oct. 24) and sent it along to the editors. It was about (he has lost actual count) his 50th TIME cover story-a record that no other TIME writer can claim...
Admiral Sherman was an unusual man -brilliant, modest and, at 53, one of the youngest officers ever proposed as Chief of Naval Operations. His World War II record was impressive. He commanded the aircraft carrier Wasp until she was shot out from beneath him in the Solomons in 1942. During the final years of the war he was Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz' "brain"; he helped plan the great sweep across the Pacific from Tarawa to Okinawa...
Morris immediately lit on the record of the mayor's administration, and started pecking like a woodpecker on a hollow tree. It was a difficult feat since O'Dwyer had run the Big City in competent, if unspectacular fashion and had managed to avoid scandal. Morris cried that O'Dwyer should have done more. Also, he had discovered that New York had bookies...
...Trustees of the four-year old College of New Jersey voted to purchases a bookcase in 1750. This is the first record in Princeton's annals of any provisions for the printed word. It was just some 198 years later, in June, 1948, that President Dodds set the last few pounds of the 5,200 tons of Foxcraft stone required in the Gothic exterior walls of the 86,000,000,000 Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library...
...dollars and cents from Curley's corrupt administration. Curley practices the philosophy of government that measures its own success by the quantity, never the quality, of the people it employs; disregarding cost, Curley has filled the city's departments with incompetents, sometimes vagrants, merely to keep his employment record high when the election comes around...