Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present organization, said the report, is "impotent" in the proper use of medical manpower and hospital beds available. In New Orleans there are five federal hospitals, with a capacity of 1,620 beds, and only 913 patients; in New York City, there are eleven federal hospitals with a capacity of 8,257 beds, only 5,330 patients. Yet federal agencies are planning to build still more hospitals...
...been sitting for 18 months, investigating subversive activities. Special Assistant Attorney General Thomas J. Donegan informed the court that the jury had been unable to finish its work, and that now, since its term was ended, the Hiss-Chambers case was being turned over to a new jury.* Reporters rushed for telephones to report that no action had been taken. "No indictments!" someone exclaimed. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey looked startled. "Of course there's an indictment," he said, "didn't you get it?" He pulled out mimeographed copies, apologizing for his forgetfulness...
History Professor William Hesseltine files a minority report: "I was considerably happier over the generation of the '30s. These veterans have been harder workers-but except in technique, they're not as good. They don't have the quick, keen intellect or the inquiring disposition . . . The slogan of the '30s was 'Oh, yeah?' -a general, basic skepticism. This generation wants to believe something. It is looking for a quick and easy answer...
...inflation ahead for the U.S.? Or a price-lowering recession? The Administration, along with many businessmen, could not agree on a forecast. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer thought the danger was inflation. In a report to President Truman, Sawyer asked that the new Congress extend the waning life of all present business controls (on exports & imports, scarce metals, etc.). He clearly indicated that he would also like some potentially stiffer "standby" controls...
...last third of An Act of Love is a first-rate, exciting war report. Correspondent Wolfert can describe a battle in its coherent entirety while focusing attention on a few men fighting in it. But as a novelist, he cannot bring to life the feelings of men in war with the same vividness that he brings a battle to life. Towards his sad weakling of a hero, whom Wolfert tiresomely philosophizes over, the reader can feel only the sort of minor pity one feels for a sick puppy...