Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Mecklin, TIME'S Ottawa bureau chief, turned in 22,000 words of firsthand reporting for our Sept. 12 cover story on Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. He had two long sessions with St. Laurent (the most time the Prime Minister has given to any publication since taking office), another with ex-Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who fed him tea, toast, and honey made by his own bees...
...World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading (1918-19), the fabulous genius of finance and the law who rose from cabin boy to England's Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India. Before he became Ambassador Lord Reading had served his country well in the U.S. The story goes that he asked the House of Morgan for a billion dollars in war credits. "I'll give you half that," said J. P. Morgan. Reading agreed. Half a billion...
After Rajk, Lieut. General Gyorgy Palffy, chief of staff of the Hungarian army, stepped to the courtroom microphone. As he talked, listeners recalled last May Day when General Palffy, resplendent in dress uniform and riding a white horse, reviewed his troops in Hero's Square. "Good morning, comrades," Palffy had shouted. A thousand voices answered "Good morning, Comrade General." Palffy had drawn his saber to salute the flag. The saber slipped out of his hand, clattered to the ground...
...method is faster than conventional typesetting, the slowness of the photoengraving process tends to cut down the time saved. But the Graphic Arts Foundation, subsidized by 139 newspaper, magazine and book publishers, hopes to speed up photoengraving by further research. Until then, photo composition's chief value will be in offset and gravure printing...
...were printed under five-year leases. Democratic publishers feared that the new publishers could break the leases and force them out of business. This week U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy joined the British and French commissioners in strengthening new laws designed to keep a curb on the German press. Chief provisions : stringent penalties for disseminating undemocratic propaganda or undermining Allied prestige...