Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roscoe Pound, dean emeritus of the Law School, refused to confirm or deny last night a Boston newspaperman's report that the jurist found no evidence of corruption in the legal system of China...
Candles on the Table. Everett submitted an incredible report (first to the U.S. Supreme Court, then to the U.S. Army), which read like a record of Nazi atrocities. He charged that, to extort confessions, U.S. prosecution teams "had kept the German defendants in dark, solitary confinement at near starvation rations up to six months; had applied various forms of torture, including the driving of burning matches under the prisoners' fingernails; had administered beatings which resulted in broken jaws and arms and permanently injured testicles...
Shanghai's powerful city council-addressing the Communists as "gentlemen" instead of "bandits"-radioed its peace appeal direct to Red headquarters at Yenan. Peiping and Tientsin, completely isolated by Red armies, followed suit. The press burst out with reports that U.S. marines were leaving their base at Tsingtao (where they had been training Chinese navy personnel). The report was quickly denied by Washington, but it was nonetheless true that plans had been made for their withdrawal. From all sides, pressure increased on Chiang Kai-shek to retire in favor of a Chinese leader more acceptable to the Communists...
After spirited debates at several meetings last week, the American Association of Colleges voted to give a green light to an extensive program of scholarship aid as outlined in the report of President Truman's Commission on Higher Education. They added, though, that there must be no lowering of educational standards and no infringement on the independence of private institutions...
Cambridge's first 24 two-hour parking meters garnered a total of $4.30 for the city coffers by 8:30 last night, according to an unofficial report. The advent of the machines Friday marked the end of the popular 19-hour parking privileges in the triangle between Harvard Hall and the University Theater...