Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acheson's advisers was the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs, Alger Hiss (brother Donald once was Acheson's executive assistant in the State Department*). When Whittaker Chambers went to Berle and linked Alger Hiss with a Washington Communist group, Berle took the report to Acheson. Before the House Un-American Activities Committee last summer, Berle testified...
Harry Truman reported last week on the State of the Union and found it "good." In two messages to Congress he was able to report that the country, at peace, was bigger, busier, and richer than it had ever been in its history...
Throughout 1948, a record number of workers (an average of over 59 million) were employed. Wages in general had kept pace with higher prices. Said the President's Economic Report: "Percentagewise, lower-income groups have enjoyed the larger gains." There had not been enough strikes to cause very much worry. Corporation profits were at a record high; in fact, having increased 16.6% over 1947, they were excessive, said the President...
...fellow Northern liberals could draft neither Ike Eisenhower nor Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, they swallowed Truman, and tried to look happy. Then they went to work to get Truman's civil rights program into the Democratic platform. While Southerners howled, Northern liberals brought out a minority report from the platform committee, backing up the President...
...report of the President's Commission was a huge boost for federal aiders. They cried out more loudly that the educational system was grossly inadequate from top to bottom, and that parts of it were downright rotten. They underscored what the Commission said: that democracy cannot rest on shoddy education, and that a modern state (democratic or not) cannot survive in the twentieth-century world on antique citizen training programs...