Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last December, at Government request, the British Iron and Steel Federation, had prepared a special report on re-equipment and reorganization of their industry. They had agreed to accept a considerable measure of Government control. Some Ministers, led by cautious House Leader Herbert Morrison, favored this compromise. But socialist planners, like capitalist governments, are susceptible to pressure groups. Nationalization of steel would appeal to the powerful Amalgamated Engineering Union, a key organization in the Labor Party's fight against the infiltration of British Communists; so Labor walked halfheartedly into a highly exposed position...
Wilmot and the less patient Laborites began to realize that socialism's clock had been a little fast. There was still plenty of fight left in the Tories. Before the Easter recess they won their first victory: Minister Wilmot announced that the Federation's special report, until then a cabinet secret, would be published...
...report to the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen on his mission in the Cumberlands, Pastor Smathers once wrote: "My vocation is practical action rather than philosophical reasoning." But that same report showed that "practical action" is only the outward and visible sign of his ministry. Said...
After wrestling with the problem for two years (on a grant, but with no guidance, from TIME Inc.), it released its first report. Peoples Speaking to Peoples (University of Chicago Press: $2) proposed a revolution in global communications. The handful of editors who had waded through its 60,000 words found many of them controversial, many highly critical of the press...
...Authors. One co-author of the report was a newsman. Llewellyn White, 46, had worked for the Paris Herald, the Literary Digest, Newsweek and the Chicago Sun. Fortnight ago he went to London to join UNESCO's staff. The other, Dr. Robert D. Leigh,. 55, was a progressive-education specialist, founding president of Bennington College, director of FCC's foreign broadcast intelligence service for two wartime years. Their major proposals...