Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British embassy managed a stag dinner for Ernie Bevin with Secretary Acheson and Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg. Acheson also dined at the French embassy, but other hosts had to be content with lesser functionaries such as Under Secretary Webb (the Italian embassy) and Counselor "Chip" Bohlen (The Netherlands). The Scandinavians entertained each other...
...Russians began with an air that was close to sweet reasonableness. Under the baiting of U.S. reporters, they ducked embarrassing questions ("That leads away from the question of peace"), or shrugged them off. In general, they seemed content to show themselves, prove that Russians were not monsters, declare their devotion to peace. Meanwhile they would let the Americans denounce the U.S. for them...
...Back Home," Mauldin's post-war sequel to his "Up Front," the cartoonist complained about pressure from advertisers on the editorial and news content of certain papers. Law Forum program arrangers don't think he has changed his mind...
McDonald, a full time and more content newscaster, is expected to defend radio sponsors from Capp's anticipated verbal onslaught...
...CRIMSON'S assertion that the Committee's decision in the case of the New Student was based on the political content of the magazine is contrary to fact and is an unwarranted slur on a group of men who, because of their consistent support of freedom, deserve the backing and not the suspicion of undergraduates. The issue in the New Student case was not the political opinions of the magazine. It was simply whether the New Student was in fact a Harvard student publication and therefore entitled to recognition as such. If the issue had been the opinions...