Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rebel Baldwin gathered his supporters downstairs on the porch, getting minute-by-minute reports from the packed meeting room. Just before Irving rose to read his financial report (it would have shown, Irving explained later, that the local's net worth was a handsome $204,000), Baldwin's boys rushed upstairs. In the stifling room, bedlam broke loose. Men seized chairs, smashed them over the heads of their opponents. Knives flashed. One member leaped to protect Irving, was deeply slashed for his pains. Before the police arrived, 25 men had been...
Last week, Tanaka and Matsumoto talked with TIME Correspondent Sam Welles, who cabled back this report of their conversation...
...Report Cards. When Schwertz told the parents' clubs that he wanted a remedial reading class, the dads and mothers quickly agreed, though no other public school had one. They bought him a projector to show documentary movies in class, a camera so the school could make movies...
Kids should work to learn, Schwertz argued, not to get A's or B's. So he did away with the old system of report cards. Then he abolished automatic annual promotions. His pupils, he declared, would advance as fast or as slowly as they were able. In the fall, each child would start off each subject where he had ended it the year before, regardless of what his classmates were doing...
Help at Yalta. When somebody has to find out whether the Nazis have made an atom bomb, Lanny naturally takes over the interrogation of captured scientists. Satisfied that the Nazis are not even close, he prepares a report for the Boss ("Roosevelt would get one through the Army, of course, but he would be more interested in the statement of a man whom he knew and trusted...