Word: dispatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, newspaper "advertising acceptability" departments had more than their quota of headaches. One was Paul Blanshard's bestseller, American Freedom and Catholic Power, which attacks Roman Catholic doctrines and practices. The Chicago Daily News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Minneapolis Star & Tribune advertising departments had printed ads for the Blanshard book. But the New York Times, which reviewed American Freedom as "news," refused to carry ads for the "controversial" book...
...first beat was in our January 2 issue when TIME'S editors reported that 1) the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making a 180° turn in their thinking, had decided to dispatch a military mission to Formosa, and 2) that President Truman had ordered his Cabinet officers to produce a clear-cut affirmative Asia policy for a meeting of the National Security Council the following week, at which he would preside...
...Joint Chiefs had decided, only to be reversed, that the U.S. should help deny Formosa to the Communists by methods successfully used in Greece; 2) Britain's decision to recognize the Chinese Communists (see INTERNATIONAL) appeared to have put the U.S.-British alignment askew; 3) a Tokyo dispatch reported that the State Department had blithely advised its staff by memo-on Dec. 23, before the President had made his own decision-to play down the strategic importance of Formosa and anticipate its fall...
...themselves, and (4) allocating millions to the development of navigation when commerce on the river is negligible. On top of all this, their administrative set-up is so complicated that they are probably still working on projects which will cancel each other out; it took a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial writer two years and a large amount of money to figure out just what they were doing...
Most of the others were waiting as Secretary of State Dean Acheson slipped through the side entrance of the White House executive wing and strode into the Cabinet room. He took his seat at the long, polished table, opened up his little tan leather dispatch case, waited for the conference to begin. At the table there were owlishly grave Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Acting Commerce Secretary Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, intelligence counselors and a brace of presidential aides. For the Defense Department also present were Under Secretary Steve Early, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews and General Omar Bradley, the chairman...