Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ball. One would outlaw the closed shop. The other would outlaw industry-wide bargaining. A fourth, which Ball was working on, would revise the Wagner Act. Ball was a stalking horse. The strategy was to write one bill, which Taft's Labor Committee would try to report out by March...
...This report, a stern rebuke to the medical profession, was delivered last week by a committee of the New York Academy of Medicine. The survey covered only New York City. But other cities are apt to be worse; most dump alcoholics in jail...
Some 60 doctors, judges and other experts, gathered at the Academy to consider the report, agreed that it was high time medics recognized alcoholism as a disease. The conferees, headed by grizzled old Anton J. Carlson, famed University of Chicago physiologist, resolved that: 1) New York should create a state commission on alcoholism* ; 2) medical and hospital societies should back medical care for alcoholics; 3) New York City should set up experimental "colonies" for long-term rehabilitation of compulsive drinkers...
...White House had prepared a timetable giving the sequence of four big pieces of news: General Marshall's recall, his China report, Jimmy Byrnes's resignation, and Marshall's appointment. The timetable was a secret, and none of the press was in on it. But as soon as James Barrett ("Scotty") Reston, 37, national reporter of the New York Times, heard the first piece of news-that General Marshall was coming home-he began fishing around...
First copies of the rejuvenated Harvard Progressive, containing a delegate's report on the Chicago Student Conference and articles on national and international affairs will appear on dining hall newsstands at noon tomorrow, a Liberal Union spokesman announced yesterday...