Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just like all other conventioneers, the delegates also had their fun. They flocked to Denver's movies, listened to the Denver Symphony Orchestra. Then they went home to report to their troops. Denver had never seen a more decorous convention, seldom one more serious...
...Stettinius a "troublemaker," charged the "most possible fuss" had been made of the matter. Britain's usually impassive Sir Alexander Cadogan, his face flushed with indignation and the Council chamber's oppressive heat, pointed out that the Iran matter would have been disposed of by a routine report on May 6. "If Russia hadn't brought it up today, this wouldn't have happened." Later, in the bar, Brazil's Pedro Leao Velloso remarked to Gromyko: "You know, I am learning Russian." Replied Gromyko: "Oh no. You are learning to vote against Russia...
...anguish cried out through him as he spoke to an international emergency conference on European grain supplies: "Hunger sits at the table thrice daily in hundreds of millions of homes. . . . The world uses the words 'starvation' and 'famine' very loosely; some travelers glibly report there is now widespread death-dealing famine on the Continent of Europe. In modern civilization whole nations do not lie down and die. The casual observers do not realize that famine would have already struck great groups and classes were it not for past overseas supplies and that it is in evitable...
Britain's diplomatic cleanup man had another vanquished crisis under his belt. Beaming baronially as he deplaned in Amsterdam last week after an 8,900-mile flight from Batavia, hump-nosed, ruddy Lord Inverchapel (Sir Archibald Clark Kerr in his pre-peerage days) gave a thumbnail report on his Indonesian peacemaking excursion. The Indonesians, he said, "really want the Dutch to stay." Indonesian Premier Sjahrir is "wise, cool and reasonable." Modestly he summed up his own efforts-to create an atmosphere in which the Indonesians and The Netherlands Indies Acting Governor General van Mook could get together. "It cost...
...days after the Greeks had gone to the polls, the U.S.-British-French Mission for Observing the Greek Elections drafted a unanimous, heartening report. As a result of scientific sampling, questionnaires, intelligence supplied by 240 observers, and statistical analyses, the Mission found...