Word: reporter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...please act accordingly?" But neither Bill O'Dwyer's pleas, nor prayers, nor singing, nor oratory dented the delegates' torpor. The rumble of conversation continued to fill the air, only subsiding a little when Congresswoman Mary Norton presented the credentials committee's report...
...hurt by war but had recovered quickly, in which farming, fishing, and business were all represented, and where the American military government commander knew and liked the people and had won their confidence. "We selected Fukui as a good sampling ground," cabled Mydans, as a postscript to his disaster report, "and had found it so in the few hours we spent there before its tragedy ended...
...there was little levity or enthusiasm. Welcoming the guests, Pennsylvania's Senator Francis J. Myers mentioned the name of Harry Truman only once and parenthetically at that. Then he pursed his lips in a graveyard whistle: "Nobody is going to lie down and die just to confirm a report in the newspapers, and neither is the Democratic Party. Who says we're dead...
...When Sir William Beveridge (in 1942) put out his famous plan,* its socialistic scheme for insurance and medical care was sponsored by a Conservative-led coalition government. Last week, under the more appropriate aegis of the Labor government, a National Health Service Act initiated by the Beveridge Report went into effect. For every man, woman & child in the United Kingdom, all medical care would be free, in a Socialist sense (paid out of taxes): doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, hospital beds, eyeglasses, artificial legs...
...adviser to the U.S. delegations at Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco; of a coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md. Admiral Willson organized the Navy's communications during World War I, retired as adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff after World War II to become associate editor of World Report...