Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada. President Roosevelt's biggest news was still to come. He held a brief press conference. He answered questions readily. Someone asked him about Candidate Willkie's challenge to meet him face to face in public. Over the Roosevelt face came a can't-you-see-I'm-busy look, but the President only said that he had been too occupied with the Army all day to have noticed Mr. Willkie's remarks...
...slowed and stopped the Willkie car the way a flood does in the desert when it washes out the road. Before the car reached his old high school for a brief preliminary ceremony, it was stuck solidly for 15 minutes, in a temperature of 102°; only Wendell Willkie's 220 lb. kept him from being pulled from the car by handshakers; he shook each hand that was offered and did not lose his smile. But in the school building from which as a boy he had been twice expelled, he seemed to lose his vitality and sat down...
...were still struggling in Norway, he sat in his favorite Manhattan haunt-the venerable National Arts Club on Gramercy Park-debating ways & means of converting pro-Ally sentiment into increased Allied aid. On May 6-when Chamberlain was on his way out over the Norwegian failure-White drafted a brief statement, left it with Eichelberger, returned to Emporia...
...YOUR BRIEF REFERENCE TO ME AS "SCARLET-FACED SWAMPLANDS SLICKER" AT CHICAGO. I WISH IN THE INTEREST OF ACCURACY TO SAY: MY BIRTH AND HABITAT ARE ON THE PINEYWOODS DRY SAND-LANDS OF THE SOUTH. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER HEARD A MAN AS HOMELY AS I AM CALLED A SLICKER. YOUR LAST REFERENCE TO ME WAS AS A "BACKWOODS NOEL COWARD." THE BACKWOODS IS ACCURATE...
...inside page the Worker published brief biographies of its new owners, three elderly ladies of respectable New England stock who took title under the name Freedom of the Press Co., Inc. The ladies...