Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masses still sticking to, according to your Press editor...
There has been talk in the press of his being invited to visit the New York World's Fair in the fall and I am sure many people will heartily welcome this: it would be an act of recognition for which my own country fears to be responsible, as a result of which a sportsmanlike Englishman can but hang his head in shame...
Having strangled the plans of John Hanes and Henry Morgenthau to revise corporation taxes this year (TIME, May 22), Franklin Roosevelt last week executed a fast fadeaway which saved the faces (and possibly the resignations) of Messrs. Hanes and Morgenthau. The face-saving compromise (influenced in part by press and Congressional pressure) was effected at a White House luncheon topped off by peach shortcake. The President and Tax Revisionist Pat Harrison (who had huffily told Mr. Roosevelt he was going to get a new tax bill whether he liked it or not) were brought together by Jimmy Byrnes, the slickest...
Last week the devout Attorney General was charging through the skies again, his G-Man beside him. When their plane halted at El Paso, Frank Murphy told the waiting press he was on the trail of "an enormous swindle." But Frank Murphy did not say what the "big swindle...
...dictators' press got raving mad last week at France and Great Britain. Usually such pre-arranged fits of anger spring from some positive antitotalitarian act, such as France's ordering more warplanes from the U. S., Britain's guaranteeing another country's security, Poland's refusal to give up Danzig. What pained Germany and Italy this time, however, was French and British indifference at the German-Italian military alliance (TIME, May 15), which Count Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop ceremoniously signed at Berlin...