Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organized relief, or more concerned with "squeeze" (timehonored graft) than with efficiency, often seems utterly callous or thoroughly inept. There is no effort to control private rice supplies. Minor officials of CNRRA-UNRRA's Chinese extension-are afraid to make decisions. They will watch a village starve and report it back to UNRRA as dramatic evidence of famine and the need for more help, instead of sending the villagers the few sacks of flour that would save them...
Said Hoover in his report on India: "Most districts are on the edge of a precipice. It is impossible to hazard what the death toll might...
Patently no admirer of Cunningham, Walker reported several of his class balked at the assignment and demurred at the "cruel and inhuman torture" of being required to peruse the column daily. He confidently expects in universally condemnatory analysis from his students, and when queried as to the possibility that some heedless student might report Cunningham pleasant reading, muttered eminously, "It will have to be a better reason than I can think...
First prediction of the next Law School Dean has come from Walter Winchell with the suggestion in his daily column that the appointment of Federal Circuit Court Justice Calvert Magruder of Boston will soon be announced. Both the Law School and Justice Magruder called the report "sheer rumor" when asked for comment yesterday...
...from which William Benton's postwar information plan for the State Department was sliced (TIME, Jan. 28). Benton's proposals were far milder. Last week, news tycoons found the pie unpalatable. Publisher John S. Knight (Chicago Daily News, Miami Herald, etc.) called it "a hazard to free reporting," a long step toward a U.S. or U.N. dominated press. Said U.P. President Hugh Baillie (whose outfit, along with A.P., the report roundly rapped for refusing to Jet the State" Department broadcast their news abroad in peacetime): "I cannot think of a speedier way for the press to get under...