Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report of the University of Washington Faculty Committee says: "The manner of the respondent Gundlach in answering questions put to him on cross-examination and by members of the committee was frequently evasive and not responsive . . . [Asked] the direct question: 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Gundlach replied: 'No one can prove that I am and I cannot prove that I am not' . . . We [the committee] feel that he has been evasive on many matters...
Keyserling Says If. The sound of dispute was loudest in Washington. The President, unmoved by signs of deflation, still demanded an anti-inflation bill. In defense of this view, Administration Economist Leon Keyserling assured the House-Senate Committee on the Economic Report with some fervor last week that the boom could go on through 1949. But he qualified this and almost everything else he said with such a muddy flow of technical phrases that in the end he seemed to have uttered only one word...
...Washington the Army handed out a flamboyantly written 32,000-word report from Douglas MacArthur's headquarters -the story of a Russian spy ring in Japan before Pearl Harbor. Chief of the ring was a slick German Communist named Dr. Richard Sorge, a lady-killing, hard-drinking grandson of Karl Marx's secretary, who wormed himself into a job as press attaché on the German Embassy staff in Tokyo. He was able to warn Moscow of the German attack on Russia 33 days before it took place. In October 1941 the Japs caught him and later hanged...
Rennovations will be made after a special committee makes it final report to the library's governing board, President Jordan disclosed...
Homosexuality wasn't the only feature of the Post-American stories, although it was certainly the most outstanding. As quoted by these papers, the Dwyer report made a great point of special therapy for individual inmates, which was termed "favoritism." The administration had its special pets, Dwyer had apparently discovered, and allowed them comparative freedom, a dangerous departure from standard prison routine. The charge that some Reformatory officials had prison records was supposed to be damning, but as it was later pointed out, if the state of Massachusetts refused employment to "ex-convicts," private business might be inclined to follow...