Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field has another, equally hush-hush, plan: to inject a bit of fresh, leftish air into rural weeklies. His partner in this project (incorporated as Cross Country Reports) is Banker-Economist James Paul Warburg, an early New Dealer, then a fervent anti (Hell Bent for Election) and finally, in 1944, a doorbell-ringer for Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. Field and Warburg's ambition is to set up as a rival to powerful Western Newspaper Union which sends boiler-plate material ("pretty reactionary") to U.S. weeklies. Says Field, grinning: "I don't think I'll make...
...wiles of a woman late last month persuaded the War Department in Washington that what had always been hush-hush so far as the press is concerned could be released for public consumption with no great danger to anything or anybody...
...long. Lady Doverdale and Miss Wiborg soon reappeared, emitting indignant cries. They retreated, reappeared again. "Hush!" (and other things) cried the diners...
...capital's hush every sound was audible-the twitter of birds in new-leafed shade trees; the soft, rhythmic scuffing of massed, marching men in the street; the clattering exhaust of armored scout cars moving past, their machine guns cocked skyward. And the beat of muffled drums. As Franklin Roosevelt's flag-draped coffin passed slowly by on its black caisson, the hoofbeats of the white horses, the grind of iron-rimmed wheels on pavement overrode all other sounds...
Immediate results in El Salvador was a fierce outburst of anti-U.S. feeling. President Franklin Roosevelt was booed in movie theaters. Salvadoran democratic leaders tried to hush the hullabaloo, were inclined to blame not the U.S., but the powerful United Fruit Co. They suspected that United Fruit opposed the spread of democracy for fear of increased taxes and stricter labor laws...