Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...idea originally was his own. Several weeks ago he lugged the bare bones of it to Washington. He so impressed C. I. O.'s Murray, Labor's Defense Commissioner Hillman, and Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson that they asked for specific documentation, a complete report. Last week after this potent trio had reviewed Walter Reuther's report, Phil Murray passed it on to President Roosevelt...
Four nights before, long-range R. A. F. bombers, their course beaconed by a convenient eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, had swooped on Naples and inflicted yet more damage on the remaining Italian cruisers and battleships. Report was that the Italian Fleet had fled once more, to hole up somewhere else...
Casually, but with the instinct of an oldtime newspaperman making a scoop, Lord Beaverbrook referred last week in his report on British aircraft production to a new British fighter: the Whirlwind (specifications still secret). And he stated: "All the fighters and all the bombers that we lost during the months the battle has raged over Britain have been paid for in full, completely and entirely, by public subscription...
...minister, Murdoch (not knighted till 1933) was doing pretty well as manager of a press cable service when he set out as a correspondent for the war in 1915. But he got his real start as an Empire bigwig when he landed in Britain, handed Lloyd George a confidential report on conditions in Gallipoli. Soon he was chatting with Cabinet ministers, generals, big businessmen in London, and Lord Northcliffe...
...Pierre Etienne Flandin was acceptable to Adolf Hitler remained for the latter's Agent-Ambassador Otto Abetz to say. Accompanied by a formidable Nazi delegation, Abetz hurried to Vichy while spokesmen in Berlin recalled that Germany and France were "still at war," and grimly intimated that upon his report would depend whether "the present state of affairs shall continue...