Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ready-. The first warning had come in August 1945. The five-nation* International Wheat Council, meeting in London, estimated then that Europe would need a staggering 15.4 million tons of wheat imports by June 30, 1946-approximately 11.7 million tons over the peacetime average. This report was sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It was ignored...
...little green leaves and wispy roots, neatly mounted on 14 neat white sheets, had pretty names-O Cheng Cho"v, Ti Chai Tzi, Sweet Chrysanthemum. But the exhibits of grass and herbs, no trophy of a schoolgirl's outing in the country, were part of an official report from the China office of UNRRA. The pretty names stood for wild leaves and stems and roots that the peasants of Hunan province (where 5,000,000 face death) have lived on for 40 days...
Furtively the delegates studied their watches as tall, purposeful Rapporteur Madame C. A. Clyver droned her way through report after report. Then at last the interminable verbosity that had plagued the League's whole life came to an end. "Our business is done," announced President Carl Hambro. "We have lost many illusions, many ideals, but a better, stronger instrument has been forged. . . . Today is what is known in America as Commencement...
...beginning of the afternoon session, Derevyanko, backed by MacMahon Ball: the British Commonwealth representative, suggested that the remainder of the report be submitted in writing. Whitney refused: ". . . the gentleman's [Derevyanko's] allegation . . . was a challenge to the Supreme Commander's conduct of the occupation. I intend to give the full details of this report and nothing short of it." He was allowed to finish while Ball closed his eyes as if in sleep...
...Follette-Monroney suggestions do not extend to abolition of seniority rule of the Senatorial filibuster, because it was felt that an attack on these institutions would kill whatever chance of Congressional acceptance he reform proposals night have. The report, however, does advocate another hotly, debated innovation--creation of a legislative-executive cabinet. Sitting in this cabinet are to be fourteen Congresmen, chosen equally from Presidential supporters in each house, who will be responsible for formulating the Administration's over-all legislative policy. These Congresional leaders, together with the President and heads of his chief agencies, would form the Joint Legislative...