Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, he kept moving to different sections of the front, looking for the most active sector. For a story on a front-line neurosurgery team, he made the round trip from Seoul to Tokyo twice in one week, hitchhiking in military planes, in order to catch up with the unit's commanding officer and to interview the theater surgeon general...
...biggest railroad, and saved it from bankruptcy. He built the country's national airline (TransCanada) and its countrywide, government-owned radio system (CBC). In World War II, he took command of Canada's industrial effort and transformed the largely agrarian Canadian economy into a high-powered industrial unit. After V-J day, he presided over the return to a well-balanced peacetime economy. He runs Canada's atomic-energy program, directs its national scientific research, sells its billion-dollar grain crop. As boss of all foreign trade, he has helped make Canada the fourth largest...
...Communist Party from 1937 to 1941 at the same time he was city editor of the Los Angeles Daily News (circ. 209,000). Judson, now senior associate editor of California's Fortnight magazine and a militant antiCommunist, named 16 others as members of the party's Newspaper Unit No. 140 during the same period. Among them: Tom O'Connor,* later a writer on Manhattan's PM and now managing editor of its successor, the Compass; Charles Daggett, onetime pressagent for James Roosevelt and now a movie publicity man; Philip M. Connelly, Los Angeles Herald-Express reporter...
Despite his dual role as working Communist and city editor, Judson said the party had never tried to influence him in his newspaper duties. After a year in the Communist Party's newspaper unit, he found that its orders on Guild matters conflicted with his responsibilities on the city desk, where he had the right to hire & fire, consequently transferred to a non-news unit of the C.P. But he stuck with the Party three more years, until its role "as a total captive of Russian foreign policy was quite apparent...
...stating that the "Garfield Club, deploring the continual inactivity and ineffectiveness of a person or a group to rectify a social system which we consider archaic, intolerable, undemocratic, and not in accordance with the liberal tradition of Williams College,...votes that the Garfield Club will dissolve as a social unit...unless positive steps are taken to institute immediately a plan of total rushing which involves the admittance to a house for any man who so desires...