Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time the Soviet-zone press triumphantly reported a resolution by Communist and Social Democratic leaders favoring a merger of their parties. Without it, the Communists stood a poor chance at the polls. The Soviet-zone press failed to report that the Social Democrats had set conditions: both parties must be organized on a national scale and the merger approved by majority vote of the Socialist rank & file. The Socialists did not want to repeat the fatal rivalry of the 19205; but they obviously sought to evade Russian pressure for an outright merger's kiss of death...
...eight years Mackenzie King settled many a labor dispute, drafted some labor legislation drastic for that day (e.g., compulsory investigation of industrial disputes). Quickly and surely he earned a reputation for being on the side of the little people against the interests. In a report on a 1907 telephone strike in Toronto, he sympathetically noted the "physical strain" involved in "long sitting in one position" and the "buzzing and snapping of instruments...
...Faculty voted on a report by the subcommittee on languages and international affairs which, headed by Donald C. McKay, associate professor of History, has been studying for a year the problem of effectively applying "Harvard's exceptionally rich and diverse resources" to post-war uses...
...second part . . .," according to the subcommittee report, "will emphasize international relationships rather than regional interests. Building upon a basic program in international affairs, it will offer a small group of men who aim at a career in the foreign field additional work designed to suit individual needs, backgrounds, and interests. Such work will frequently include regional training in the second year of a 'normal' two-year program...
About the current rumors that Gray will be leaving Harvard at midyears, Coach Stahl was noncommittal. Since Gray is in the Navy, nobody on the athletic staff is in a position to confirm or deny that report, he said...