Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stave off labor trouble on the railroads for 19 years. It called for the establishment of a fact-finding commission-probably three members-who would investigate any major strike on the President's orders. The commission would have power to subpoena all books and records; it would report directly to the President...
...Assistant Chief of Staff for Military Intelligence in the crucial days of 1941. Into the record went a long series of Japanese code messages intercepted before Dec. 7. Most significant: instructions sent by Tokyo on Sept. 24, ordering a spy in Honolulu to divide Pearl Harbor into five sectors, report on the ships at anchor in each...
...Report does," claimed Mortimer J. Adler, Professor of Law and author of "How to Read a Book," is show the way the wind's blowing. There's nothing radical about it--I can name ten liberal arts schools which have gone further--it's merely adopting a more integrated curriculum...
...report . . . states nothing new nor original," the Maroon continues. "It lacks the zest, the pioneering spirit so necessary to any revolutionary doctrine. . . At best it simply restates the findings of other universities which for a quarter century have pondered the problems of a general education. . . It's sheer plagiarism from Chicago, Columbia, St. John's, Wisconsin...
...Krash, editor, did not deny that Harvard specifically called the tract a "golden mean," hardly a revolution, and that the Report pointedly disclaims originality, attempting to cull the best from both extremes of current controversy: "Without denying the partial value of any . . . views we believe rather that the main task of education is to interpret at all stages both the general and the particular; both the common sphere of truth and the specific avenues of growth and change...