Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fame, Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, Irving T. McDonald, WEEI news analyst, and William E. Mullins, politics editor of the Boston Herald will take the Forum platform at 8 p.m. to express their personal views on the matter of the almighty dollar's effect on the nation's press and radio...
...week's end, riotous carnival* parades wound their way once more past Marti's statue in Central Park. The warships, with the three culprits in the brig, sailed for home, while the captains pondered measures to make their men behave as disciplined Navy men should. The conservative press pointed out that radio speakers had stirred the people up in "a hysterical manner." Minister of State Carlos Hevia accepted U.S. apologies. But Cubans would not forget the incident for years; the Communists would see to that...
...Comment. All of them had five days of sightseeing and lectures. Dwight called on his Congressman, Republican Carl Hinshaw ("A commanding personality," Dwight thought), then on to Harry Truman, on whom he had no comment for the press. On the last night, he and his 39 colleagues crowded into the Presidential Room of the Hotel Statler with 300 other guests to hear who would win Westinghouse's $2,800 and $2,000 college scholarships. There were consolation awards for everybody else: eight $400 scholarships and 30 prizes of $100 each...
Over the years, politically independent Editor Kung, whose readers call him Ta Pao Hsiensheng ("Mister Big Cannon"), has fired at an impressive variety of targets, often in terms far beyond occidental ideas of press freedom. His most abiding hates have been the Japanese, the Chinese Communists and Kuomintang corruption. It was Editor Kung who started the criticism that helped sweep Finance Minister T. V. Soong out of office (in 1933), and his attacks have helped unsettle at least three cabinets. Two years ago, David Kung, son of former Finance Minister H. H. Kung and nephew of Madame Chiang, was accused...
...presenting an original musical comedy production, "Mind the Music," while the Yale Glee Club gives its annual prom concert Friday night. On Saturday the Yale fraternities will have closed dances in their chapter houses. A series of athletic contests is also scheduled for the weekend. (From the Grand Rapids "Press...