Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amended the Neutrality Act to give the President authority to arm merchant ships in emergencies. ¶Received a report from Oregon's Guy Cordon, chairman of a Subcommittee on Territories and Insular Affairs, recommending statehood for Hawaii...
...been able to agree on the noble synopsis of salvation, to which half a hundred sovereign nations would have to agree before it could become reality. The committee's own chairman, Philosopher Richard McKeon, refused to sign the draft because he disagreed with it. Said Hutchins: the report was something to talk about...
...guerrilla guns. In Thrace, and other parts of the fighting zone, Communist-laid road mines were making serious trouble. General Alexander Assimak-opoulos, able commander of the government's Seventh Division, was killed when his car blew up on a road mine. Athens police were alerted by a report of Communist forces only 15 miles from the capital. This, however, turned out to be only a small band plundering a sanatorium for food...
...Here We Stand." On May 19, 303 A.D., in the Algerian city of Cirta (now Constantine), one Munatus Felix, high priest of the emperor, personally led a raid on a Christian service. He took with him a stenographer, whose report, taken in shorthand, sounds disconcertingly familiar to modern ears...
Gold Cup assignment for Murrow (he thinks it bears a depressing resemblance to Munich, 1938). "It's the biggest news story out of Europe this year," he says, "and I cannot sit here in an air-conditioned office and report...