Word: journal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times: "Mr. Attlee has to ask himself whether the resolve to remain in office can now be upheld. It is scarcely conceivable that the galloping consumption of the nation's wealth and strength can be more than momentarily checked by the government's proposals." The Nottingham Journal: "Mr. Attlee scatters a handful of grit and tintacks over the path we ought...
Last week the Portland school board suddenly sat up and took notice. For one thing, the current Ladies' Home Journal was carrying an exposé of such societies that quoted a former Portland boy named Chuck Swanman. On "Hell Night" he had been taken to a faraway golf course "where the cops can't hear you yell," forced to drink a mixture of a searing hot sauce compounded with pepper and garlic and ordered to smoke a handful of cigars, inhaling every puff. After he vomited, the "hackers" went to work, whacked him 50 times with an inch...
Meier & Frank, a 14-story, block-square department store in Portland, Ore., is the biggest in the Pacific Northwest. It is also easily the biggest advertiser (10% of the linage) in Portland's two daily newspapers, the morning Oregonian (circ. 213,135) and the evening Oregon Journal (circ...
...reporter incompetence." The hearings had taken place in a seldom-used chamber of the eight-story U.S. courthouse, and reporters had simply overlooked them. When the case is resumed, the editors said, they expect to cover it. But at week's end, neither the Oregonian nor the Journal had admitted the oversight in print-or told its readers anything about the case...
...disease tends to breed in families where serious, long-standing social problems exist," Dr. Robert Jackson of the University of Iowa reported this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Students of rheumatic fever cannot fail to learn how important wholesome family life is to the welfare of children, and how devastating immoral practices, such as selfishness, greed, drunkenness, promiscuity and divorce, are to wholesome family life. Only when an attack on these complicated detrimental forces is made, utilizing supernatural and natural resources, can one hope for the eradication of this scourge of childhood."* Citing his study...