Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oval Room of the White House last week, President Truman read to his press conference these soldierly words from George Catlett Marshall. The President was grave as he went on reading his own written reply. Suddenly Truman grew impatient with the inadequacy of his own words. He looked up to reporters and blurted: "In my opinion, General Marshall is the outstanding man of the World...
Shanghai's powerful city council-addressing the Communists as "gentlemen" instead of "bandits"-radioed its peace appeal direct to Red headquarters at Yenan. Peiping and Tientsin, completely isolated by Red armies, followed suit. The press burst out with reports that U.S. marines were leaving their base at Tsingtao (where they had been training Chinese navy personnel). The report was quickly denied by Washington, but it was nonetheless true that plans had been made for their withdrawal. From all sides, pressure increased on Chiang Kai-shek to retire in favor of a Chinese leader more acceptable to the Communists...
Last week, by what the Chinese press called polite insubordination, Pai rudely defied the Gimo. He ignored an order to send one of his armies to the Huai River front, where the Communists were attacking less than 100 miles north of Nanking. He even requested the return of two armies he had previously "lent" to Chiang. Rumors swept Nanking that crafty Pai was delaying river-borne supplies to the capital, that he was shifting troops southward to fortify his lao chia (old home) in Kwangsi. If true, it would be a severe blow to Nationalist hopes of holding the Yangtze...
Roman cops, their topees set at a jaunty angle, intercepted all traffic offenders and on the spot collected sizable fines. To increase their civic zeal, the policemen were allowed to keep half of the fines. In vain the press cried out against this "unheard-of form of taxation...
...ministry carried on without him, however, informing Frenchmen that, the minute they caught sight of a flu suspect, they ought to press a handy piece of gauze over mouth and nostrils. One eminent physician declared: "Consumption of alcohol is at least as efficient a preventive as any drug." Beneath public health notices declaring: "He who avoids flu performs a public service," France's barflies drank deep and gloriously in the full consciousness of civic virtue...