Word: dispatchable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have Bevin's job as Foreign Secretary during those years disagreed. From the dispatch box opposite Bevin, Anthony Eden attacked the "timing and method" which had put Britain out of step with the U.S., France and most of the Commonwealth. Said Eden sharply: "Recognition has in fact brought out no advantage at all ... Our commercial interests in China are of immense importance [but] it will advantage no one-not those firms, nor anyone else-to embark on a policy of appeasement . . ." British recognition, he added, had adversely affected "events outside China, notably in Indo-China and in Malaya...
Simon, former president of the CRIMSON, will be graduated in June. Lilienthal is a reporter on the St. Louis "Post-Dispatch," and Glinn is now a photographer for "Life" magazine...
What's Up? Twice Ellen Knauff won reprieves from the courts, one by only a few hours. Then boos and hisses began to come from the gallery: the New York Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had taken up her case. The House Judiciary Committee heard Mrs. Knauff's story-she had served the British R.A.F. with distinction during the war, worked for the U.S. in Germany after the war, sworn that she had never been a Communist or a Communist sympathizer. What, then, was all the fuss about...
...history, Art and Life in America; Gwendolyn Brooks, best poetry, Annie Allen; Seattle Times Reporter Edwin O. Guthman, best national reporting, in clearing a professor of Communist charges (TIME, Nov. 7); Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Edmund Stevens, best international reporting, on Russia; Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for public service in exposing Illinois newsmen on state payrolls (TIME, May 9, 1949); Editor Carl M. Saunders of the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot, best editorial, on Memorial Day; Photographer Bill Crouch of the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune; Cartoonist James T. Berryman of the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps strode briskly into a crowded House of Commons one afternoon last week to read the Labor government's budget for 1950-51. Boyishly, Cripps slapped his battered red leather dispatch case onto the table, grinned as he began a long review of Britain's economic position. He spoke steadily for two hours and 17 minutes, pausing only twice for bird-like sips from a glass of orange juice and honey. At the end of the first hour the drama had been squeezed out of the annual rite; some members' heads...