Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entirely from the outside, Jerry Voorhis, who stuck doggedly to his membership until 1943 continually banged away at excesses in the committee. When chief investigator J.B. Matthews charged that Communists were using consumers' organizations in an effort to destroy the venerable American institution of advertising, Voorhis promptly tagged the report as sheer opinion. It turned out that Matthews was carrying a personal grudge against certain consumers' groups, and was strangely short on facts to support his statements...
Other members of the football team who won't be able to report to Barclay until after the Yale game include quarterback Bill Henry, tailback Jim Kenary, and tackle Tom Guthrie...
Three months after Pearl Harbor, the committee issued a report on Japanese espionage. It was a huge document, but as many well-informed individuals pointed out, its contents were largely known before-hand. Discomfited, Dies remarked that at least the report was "educational...
...summer of 1943, the committee tangled with the War Relocation Authority, which was handling the touchy problem of Japanese-Americans moved inland from the Pacific Coast. Committee investigators reported that the internees were among the best-fed civilians in the world, and a sub-committee charged that the Relocation people had released 23 members of the fearsome Black Dragon Society. But Representative Eberharter, third man on the sub-committee, made a minority report. He denied that the Japanese were being coddled, noted that of the 16,000 released by the WRA, none had been hauled in for subversive actions...
...objections to a plaque as a war memorial will also be presented to the executive board of the Associated Harvard Clubs when the board meets tomorrow to consider the Saltonstall report...