Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many Peiping intellectuals, some of the 16 correspondents in residence there this winter viewed without alarm the prospect of Communist capture of Peiping. Boss Mao Tse-tung had promised complete press freedom, and correspondents hoped to get an on-the-spot picture of the Red army. But when Red troops marched in last month, newsmen got a rude surprise...
...when the school of the fine arts won so many Prix de Rome that the prize got to be known as the Prix de Yale. Angell cut across department barriers to give undergraduates an integrated curriculum. Under him, Yale began its system of residential colleges, started its university press and the Yale Review...
...nearly 40 years, the weekly Norfolk Journal and Guide has campaigned so skillfully for the Negro that it is the biggest Negro newspaper in the South (circ. 68,000). It is also about the most soundly edited paper in a segment of the U.S. press that is too often shrill, sensational and irresponsible. Last week the Guide won its third straight Wendell Willkie award-for public service in Negro journalism. Said Louis M. Lyons, curator of Harvard's Nieman Fellowships and chairman of the judges: "For the most part, the Negro press has a long...
...hand at an editorial. He did so well that he was hired as associate editor. In 1910, Young took over the Guide and turned it into a general newspaper for Negroes. Now it has 80 employees, an International News Service wire and good Washington coverage from the National Negro Press Association...
Floor & Roof. FRB's action had been taken with President Truman's approval, though it was thoroughly incompatible with his continued demand for anti-inflation controls. At his press conference the President was asked how he could reconcile the conflicting programs. Said he: the nation's economy was spiraling in two directions at once. Farm prices had fallen, but other prices were still going up. What the nation needed, he thought, was a floor under some prices and a roof over others...