Word: reporting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...delegates felt other pressures too. The platform committee, meeting a week early, with the heavy foundation of the Glenn Frank Committee report to build on, still had come to no conclusion: after days of tortuous debate, they still fought over the crucial foreign policy plank...
...dissolve German organizations and start criminal proceedings against "Fiührer" Julius Dalldorf and other leaders. Before this could be done, German Minister Otto Langmann announced that the Nazi Party and German Labor Front had been voluntarily dissolved. The Government replied by arresting twelve Germans, went ahead with its report, which traced Nazi activities directly to Minister Langmann. Three German gliders, one parachute and a dismantled radio station were found in a Nazi Stutzpunkt (strong point) near Montevideo and police in automobiles and airplanes began combing the country for more Stutzpunkte...
...Valiant words!" cried a "war bulletin" issued by the German Embassy in Buenos Aires. The Buenos Aires Critica thought differently, headlined its report of the speech: VARGAS, WITH FASCIST LANGUAGE, JUSTIFIES THE AGGRESSION OF THE BARBARIANS. In Washington, the State Department refused to get excited, intimated that Getulio was talking for domestic consumption. That was what the Brazilian Press & Propaganda Department said. Getulio himself assured the President by cable that his speech could "in no sense be regarded as contradictory" to the Charlottesville address...
Next day, David was "gated" (confined to college after 9 p.m.)-and told to report for military service in three weeks...
Just after filing his monopoly report last week, up for reappointment came Commissioner Brown. He faced unexpected opposition. New Hampshire's blatant Senator Tobey ignored his party line to belabor a fellow Republican. Equipped with a portfolio crammed with documents, Tobey bellowed a demand for facts concerning a "wild party" given in New York by WMCA's President Donald Flamm, and attended by Brown. When Brown refused to discuss the affair, Tobey leered and boomed: "And is it true that one of the men at the party ran his hand up a woman's leg?" Later...