Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the hearing was over, Bilbo, his five lawyers, the committee, and particularly Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, committee chairman and Bilbo buddy, seemed well satisfied. The committee returned to Washington to write a report. Few expected that it would recommend unseating the Senator...
Anglo-American relations looked good last week-no nasty diplomatic incidents, no spectacular twisting of the lion's tail or plucking of the eagle's feathers by hyperthyroid editors or politicians. On the positive side there was even a solid report (see FOREIGN NEWS) that the British would accede to U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes's suggestion on the partition of Palestine...
...U.S.S.R," has never yet written any legislation, but is occasionally allowed to ratify decrees which the Government has already issued. Classic instance: when Molotov told the Supreme Soviet in 1939 that Russia had abandoned collective security in favor of a pact with Germany, that body unanimously accepted his report without debate "because of the clarity and consistency of the foreign policy of the Soviet Government...
After every game each man on the team, including those who warmed the bench, is expected to write a report about the opposing players in his position. Before each game, the Bears' elaborate card index of the weaknesses in rival players is brought out and studied. Sample: the New York Giants' 225-lb. left tackle, Tex Coulter (dropped from West Point in June because his math grades were poor) is tough on defense, but he is apt to be a vulnerable link when the Giants have the ball. Halas' Bears practice three hours a day, get three...
Their first assistant was Edgar Allan Poe; their first book review was J. G. Whittier's report (favorable) on Longfellow's Evangeline. Willis and Morris crammed down the throats of "the upper 10,000" the new works of De Quincey, Swinburne, Leigh Hunt, Victor Hugo, Balzac, George Sand and anyone else they could buy or steal...