Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received the first annual report of his three-man, five-month-old Council of Economic Advisers, took an optimist's exception to its finding that a U.S. business recession in 1947 was "easy to visualize." The President said he did not admit any such thing...
...bosses of Big Labor had evidently been studying the signs. They had read the election returns and had seen what happened to John L. Lewis. They had sent up a trial balloon (the Nathan report) for higher wages without higher prices, and seen it riddled with buckshot by industry's sharpshooters...
Although the hearing was not officially closed, the subcommittee's lawyers were already at work on a strong anti-Bilbo report to the Senate. Its main point: that Bilbo had "acted improperly" in accepting gratuities from war contractors...
...A.E.C. last week, Baruch wanted immediate approval of the U.S. proposals in a report to the Security Council. Russia's Andrei Gromyko asked for time to think it over, and perhaps to wire the home office (where Molotov had just arrived) ; Baruch insisted that Gromyko must agree in three days. He also ruled out any veto against punishments...
Sitdown Walkout. At last, Baruch accepted a Canadian amendment to send the report back to a working committee with instructions to pay due heed to the U.S. "principles," but to bring the phrasing into harmony with the Assembly's disarmament resolution-a document which does not mention punishment or vetoes. The vote in favor was 10-to-0. Poland abstained; Russia's Gromyko did not even "abstain"-in the technical sense. He simply said: "I am not taking part in this discussion." This was a walkout lacking only the physical act, a sort of sitdown walkout...