Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Sun Fo's first press conference in Canton, he denied a rumored rift between himself and Li: "Technically, the capital remains in Nanking. The government is just functioning in a different place...
...Paper. That afternoon, while government speakers droned on, Convention President Mercante, who is provincial governor of Buenos Aires and one of Perón's closest friends, met with Peronista leaders. Shortly afterwards, the majority floor leader, Angel Miel Asquia, came out to tell the press that they had decided to drop the proposal to let a President succeed himself...
Novelist Somerset Maugham was given a belated 75th birthday party by Manhattan's Overseas Press Club. He blew out a single candle and offered a serene opinion on Britain's future: "There can be no reason to fear for the nation so long as the women of England retain their magnificent virility...
...court reporter for Scripps-Howard's Cleveland Press, methodical young (32) Leonard Hammer was appalled by the slipshod way couples were divorced in Cuyahoga County. Hammer thought that a couple could get a decree without either of them appearing before a judge, or even presenting any evidence...
...test his theory, Reporter Hammer persuaded the Press makeup editor, Richard Campbell, 25, and his wife Florence Margaret to act as guinea pigs. Signing himself "C. P. Ress, atty.," Hammer drew up a divorce petition for the happily married Campbells. He stamped the application with a notary's stamp, paid the $11 filing fee and waited the legal six weeks. Then he slipped the form into a stack of similar papers in the divorce court...