Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machines. In some cases they were equipped with little ladders to help the kiddies plunk in their nickels. The machines were protected from the police through an injunction against seizure. They were protected from rival hoodlums by a private police force, whose efficiency is reflected by this report from the company files...
...Dean Acheson returned last week to Washington, tired but cheerful. In the group which gathered at the airport to meet him were Mrs. Acheson and Harry Truman. Said the beaming President to the Secretary: "You have done an excellent job." Then Acheson kissed his wife and drove off to report to the President in detail on the conference of U.S., British and French Foreign Ministers in Paris (TIME...
...patience of any elderly suitor. O'Dwyer was miffed at the press anyway; only one out of the ten New York newspapers had supported the mayor in his campaign. Finally, he blew up and, wagging his pipe, roared: "There's absolutely nothing to the report I'll marry this weekend. It's all a dirty, contemptible carrying-on on the part of the press...
...FORTUNE, Journalist Davenport, an able reporter, analyst and critic of many phases of the U.S. and world economy, did corporation stories and FORTUNE'S monthly Business Roundup, conducted a column (Books & Ideas), wrote editorials and such notable politico-economic articles as "Socialism by Default," an analysis of the U.S. drift toward collectivism. He was also coauthor, with LIFE's Charles J. V. Murphy in 1945, of The Lives of Winston Churchill, and helped edit and summarize conclusions of the first Harriman report on Europe (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947) and the Hoover commission reports...
President Conant was offered and has rejected the chairmanship of the Research and Development Board of the Defense Department, it was learned this week. White House press secretary Charles G. Ross and Conant's office both declined to comment on the report...