Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish Labor Committee's report concluded: "On the one side we observed a spirited attempt of the Jews in the various [Iron Curtain] countries to rebuild their culture and their institutions . . . and on the other side the success of the Communist regimes in ... smashing Jewish life, including [the Jews'] instruments of self-government and their very souls...
...Buenos Aires country place of Juan Perón. After lunch, Juan gave Bertie a medal, a diploma and a well-phrased pat on the back: "This medal ... is presented to honest men. I award it to you as an honest man who directs honest institutions which report the news of Argentina and Latin America honestly and accurately...
Three other investigators made a preliminary report on a scientific survey, the first of its kind, in which they looked for some connection between smoking and lung cancer. Chief Surgeon Evarts Graham and Medical Student Ernest L. Wynder of Washington University's School of Medicine, and Manhattan's Dr. Herbert C. Maier, checked 200 male patients who had lung cancer, and a group of 500 without cancer. Of the 200 with cancer, 95.5% had smoked at least one package of cigarettes a day for at least 20 years; only one was a nonsmoker, and all but 3% inhaled...
...Hawaiian Board of Hospitals: "We should be wary of jumping into something new when the present operation is showing results." Five bills were introduced after the Governor's message, but none was for immediate action. One asked for a survey of leprosy in Hawaii and a report to the next session; another asked for more research. The others would make life easier at Kalaupapa by such details as allowing photographs to be sent home (now only scientific pictures...
Raises. G.M. grabbed the headlines with its cut only a day after Chrysler upped the prices on its 1949 models by 6.66%. In his annual report last week Chrysler President K. T. Keller explained: "Higher prices at this time are inevitable. No significant drop in labor costs or prices of materials is as yet even in prospect and much less in evidence...