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...newshens cover almost everything. A few have been on the police beat. They help on every major Government bureau beat and on two -OPA and Agriculture-women alone represent one major press association. The editors' consensus is that they do remarkably well. A girl reporter at the Interior Department was first to dig out the "Big Inch" faulty-pipe story. The Associated Press's young Flora Lewis was 24 hours ahead on the State Department's embargo of oil shipments to Spain. The girls contend that the traditional greeting of officials at press conferences -"Good morning, gentlemen...
...general consensus obtained among leaders in the Social Sciences departments was that the measure would not be passed. Professor Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., Chairman of the Department of Government, favored all of the President's program, but doubted that the National Service Act would be passed by an antagonistic Congress except in considerably modified form. It would be an unfair solution, he said, to pass part and not all of the program, as the balance the President is aiming at would thereby be destroyed...
...homeward-bound U.S. and British delegations and of their Russian colleagues. London and Washington did not forget that the Moscow meeting was only a preliminary to the promised meeting of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. But in every world capital the declarations had been weighed. A consensus of interpretation developed...
Manifestly annoyed by the King's disruption of occupation routine, Allied authorities were thankful when he thereafter remained indoors. They announced the dismissal of "several hundred" Fascist officials in Naples, otherwise forwarded the scrubbing of Italy's Fascist face. But the consensus in Naples at week's end was that the cleanup, at least for the duration, would probably not extend to Vittorio Emanuele...
...resurgence of oldsters into wartime industry has given scientists a good chance to check up on this Ciceronian saw. In the Harvard Business Review Professor Ross Armstrong McFarland of the Harvard Medical School reported findings indicating that Cicero was right. The consensus of recent studies, McFarland's and others...