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...Republican & Responsible." But three hours later the news was official. Paul Hoffman, now nominated as the boss of ECA, called another press conference. It was a different Hoffman who confronted nearly 100 newsmen, photographers and newsreel men in the Statler Hotel's Congressional Room. His answers were prompt and candid. He was supposed to be a hard-boiled businessman, said a reporter. Would he be hard-boiled with Europe? "The money we put up for European recovery can only stimulate Europe's economy," he said. "It cannot create...
...Secretary James V. Forrestal, who has plugged for sensible security rules ever since he pried open the Navy's clam-tight policy in 1944. Military censorship ended with the war,* but the need for keeping military secrets did not. Last week Forrestal called in 22 press, radio and newsreel representatives to talk over ways to keep them...
...Salle lobby. They had a drink, then got into Nelson's car. Joe said that Nelson then took a brown envelope out of his pocket and told him to put the money in it. A few days later Nelson summoned Joe to pose with Governor Dwight Green for newsreel pictures. Said Joe: "I didn't shave and didn't wear a necktie to the Governor's office. That was my way of showing my disgust...
...strike wave had some ugly breakers. In N&252;rnberg, 30,000 workers jammed the former Adolf Hitler Platz, where they listened to nationalist harangues beneath signs proclaiming: WE DEMAND GERMAN UNITY. In a Frankfurt movie theater, when a newsreel showed the American Friendship Train carrying food to Germany's neighbors, the audience yelled: "The Americans will let us starve. Let them go to hell...
...arms routine which, unfortunately, stayed behind when Wheeler and Woolsey left Hollywood by popular request around 1935. And when they combine forces with a trio of Latin musicians for a five-man hat-mixup act, the result is probably the unfunniest three minutes in film history, not excepting the newsreel shots of Pearl Harbor...