Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called attention to the fact that I was a "Democrat," but I have not observed your criticizing any Republican member of the House for doing the same thing. You insinuated, at least, that I was mailing that report free to all my constituents. The fact is that the campaign committee out in California advises me that they prepaid the postage on these reports. However, both you and your readers should know that, as Congressman, I did frank several hundred of these to constituents after paying about $600 to have them printed...
Several members on the Republican, as well as the Democratic side, are congratulating me on your noticing my "report." Again, thank...
...generals' aides and the traveling newsmen had said their two-bits worth. This week General Ike had his say. Released for publication (though dated July 1945) was General Eisenhower's report*of his duties as Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force...
Eisenhower's report was written long before his critics-notably Lieut. Colonel Ralph (Top Secret) Ingersoll-began to attack him as a cautious, "political" general. But by inference, he dismisses attacks on his caution, declaring simply that to continue General Patton's armored blitzkrieg across the Rhine before Christmas was impossible. Not only had he outrun his supplies, but there were too many Germans in too good positions on the west bank...
...stated his conviction that a controlled chain reaction of atomic fission (and hence the atom bomb) was now feasible, that the German Government was working on an atomic bomb, that the U.S. must begin research on the bomb at once or civilization would perish. Einstein enclosed a report by his friend, Dr. Leo Szilard, describing in more technical language how & why the bomb was possible. Franklin Roosevelt acted. Result: the Manhattan Project (TIME, Aug. 15), the bomb, the 125,000 dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the biggest boost humanity has yet been given toward terminating its brief history...