Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reluctantly giving in to the pleas of their organizers and of James Moriarty, State Commissioner of Labor, 300 cooks and waitresses last night voted to report for duty as usual this morning. In view of gains made in yesterday's negotiations, they extended the deadline for a "satisfactory contract" from midnight last night to noon Wednesday...
Trafalgar-the Navy's hemispheric defense game off the West Indies (TIME, March 6). In such theoretical exercises, said he, theoretical land masses are imagined on the strategy maps where actually there is only ocean. Gist of his report: the game had failed to demonstrate conclusively whether a foreign fleet could penetrate the U. S. first line of defense and gain a military foothold in the Western Hemisphere, but had proved that the Navy needs added bases in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Piquant detail of the game: a defense patrol plane, from an altitude...
Despite the theoretical secrecy of the conclave, newshawks found it possible to report something of what happened. On the first ballot, Cardinal Pacelli received 35 votes, the scattered remainder representing three types of candidacies: a diplomat (Cardinal Maglione), a purely elected spiritual since leader the office (Florence's took its Cardinal present dalla spiritual leader (Florence's Cardinal dalla Costa), a non-Italian (Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve). On the second ballot, Cardinal Pacelli received 40 votes, only two short of the required two-thirds majority...
...weeks ago a report reached the U. S. about an atomic explosion which took place in a Berlin laboratory-the most violent atomic explosion ever accomplished by human agency (TIME, Feb. 6). This news, known then only to a few insiders, streaked over the physical world like a meteor. By last week a half-dozen leading science journals were popping with reports confirming, extending or interpreting the original phenomenon...
From New York University's Washington Square College comes the report of youthful optimism and confusion. Senior class members polled by the yearbook, declared (1) that they expect to be earning an average of $5000 five years from now; (2) that they will not find any job acceptable unless it pays more than $25 a week; (3) that cultural subjects were worthwhile; (4) that their favorite course is the philosophy of history and civilization...