Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, as on many other questions, there was no direct answer from the White House. The President of the U.S. had almost dropped out of the people's sight. His comings & goings, if any, were cloaked in military secrecy. His press conferences were brief, un-newsy...
...White House wedding, fanciest of the day, was reported by brief communiques. The papers had plenty of space left to report other glamor weddings of the same day-notably...
Applications, preferably in letter form and containing a brief statement of the applicant's previous training and experience, should be addressed to W. O. Judkind, the instructor in charge, at the Fogg Museum...
...Japanese-U.S. friendship. His appeal was to the peaceful Japanese whose interests were in international trade and, therefore, amity. He won the high personal regard of countless Japanese, and returned it in full measure. But months before Pearl Harbor he told Washington that his reports had to be brief; Japan's military dictators were operating in dark secrecy. Then, for more than six months after Pearl Harbor, he was obliged to bide his time in Tokyo while the land where so much compelled his affection made war on his native land...
...Editors fretted, egged each other on in the hope that someone else would break the story first. Then, if the Government did not crack down, they could all go to town and freedom of the press would be saved. A few papers printed sparse quotes and brief summaries, the Winnipeg Tribune went even further -with reservations...