Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West had scored. Moscow reacted with a thunderous press and radio barrage intended to intimidate all those who signed the pact, or who wanted to sign (e.g., Italy, who is being invited to join this week). In Norway's far north, where the 122½-mile Russian border is guarded on the Norwegian side by only a few ski patrols, there were rumors of Russian troop movements...
...velvet couch, adjusted his gray silk tie, sauntered into his studio to receive the unexpected callers. Solemn of mien, in dark blue suits and black ties, the two señors coldly declined to sit. One thrust forward a blue-bound book with the bright yellow title-Press Mission in Spain. "Have you seen this book?" he asked with menace in his tone...
...next 24 hours, all Madrid, titillated by the looming duel of honor, hunted up copies of Press Mission in Spain. Though banned, it could be bought in the black market at 500 pesetas ($20) a copy. The price was steep but rewarding. Serrano Suñer had passed on to the book's author, Journalist Armando Chavez Camacho of Mexico City, a choice comment by Adolf Hitler on Sancho Davila, a burly Falangist bullyboy who had once killed two party rivals in a political brawl, and had long been feuding with Serrano Suñer. Sneered...
Next, Eva's longtime personal press-agent and boss of her newspaper Democracia was moved in as chief of the Sub-secretariat of Information, controlling 90% of the nation's press, 100% of its radio. Even the dollar famine was turned to Eva's ends; the National Economic Council decreed that during the shortage of foreign exchange, all newspapers would have to pool their newsprint stocks. This meant that the independent La, Prensa and La Nación would have to hand over much of their reserve stock to Peronista newspapers. Eva's man took charge...
...Manhattan for an Overseas Press Club dinner in his honor, George C. Marshall was asked to name a couple of favorite songs. Singer Jessica Dragonette bypassed one choice, Rock of Ages, sang his other favorite, Buttons and Bows...