Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there the class in world history was using TIME for a panel discussion (see cut). I joined in and we had a fine time. A 14-year-old Iraqi girl named Clare Bakash said that she and her family depended on TIME for a complete report on world news-especially because she could not count on receiving foreign news broadcasts clearly at home. Amik Zaharkian, 13, an Armenian, told me that he admired TIME'S style very much, but he thought that you had to be 'very well educated to understand it.' Steven Bochner, a 15-year...
...Senate: ¶ Received a report from its Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approving the North Atlantic Treaty. The report stipulated (at the insistence of Georgia's Walter George) that the pact give the U.S. President no new powers to send troops into combat without consent of Congress...
...innuendo." Every airplane the Air Force had ordered, wrote Symington, and every step in the B-36 program had been approved by the nation's top air commanders. At no time had "any higher authority attempted to recommend in any way the purchase of any airplane." As to reports that his own efforts in behalf of the B-36 would be rewarded with the presidency of a "huge aircraft combine," Symington said flatly: "The report...
...Lied." Hulking (6 ft. 4 in.), brown-mustached Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Murphy rose to make his opening statement as undramatically as if he were reading a directors' report. He spoke dispassionately: the case of the U.S. v. Alger Hiss was a simple one-just a matter of two counts of perjury before a grand jury...
...Chattanooga Times spoke the concern of many a Southerner: "[Picky Pie] Hill was murdered, but it is the South which again was lynched in the unreasoning fury of a cowardly mob." There was some question whether it was actually the act of a mob (see above). But inevitably, the report of the year's first lynching* attracted wide attention in the nation's press, obscuring the slower, less spectacular but undeniable improvement in the Negro's lot in the South...