Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Smith will be disappointed: 1) the 72-hour press run of the Oppenheimer cover was completed long before the first vote was cast; 2) there wasn't a single stick of scrapped type in the shop (the four-page election section was written, edited and printed the day after the election, as planned...
...Tones of Authority. On the surface, it was a lazy week, and the 30-odd newsmen assigned to the President sat around fidgeting over the lack of any spot news. In what was intended as a broad hint of their impatience, they staged a mock welcome for Press Secretary Charles Ross and Personal Secretary Matthew Connelly, who arrived to spend a few days with the boss. Sheets, shorts, undershirts and pants were strung across a street on the Navy's Key West submarine base. The Negro girls of Douglass High School, dressed in gym suits, and Walter...
...President good-naturedly took the hint and held a press conference the next day under a cork tree-his first since the exhausting election campaign. He reported on his physical condition. He weighed 173 lbs. "bedside," he told reporters. He was tanned and relaxed. Correspondent Tom Reynolds of the New Dealing Chicago Sun-Times reported: "He speaks now with tones of authority . . . confident of his mandate." From his cracker-barrel perch on the arch-Republican New York Sun, Columnist H. I. Phillips wrote reassuringly: "I think Harry's hat still fits . . . and that always in his ear he hears...
...Paris last week, Charles de Gaulle held one of the most extraordinary press conferences of his career. The general was by turns ironical, frigid and passionate...
...make clear this stand and to refute Lindley, William Polk had to find a sounding board. He chose the Progressive Party and Henry Wallace, a choice which today he admits was his "worst mistake." As a result, Wallace got up at his now famous press conference during the Progressive Party's Philadelphia convention and implied to the assembled newsmen that they should be ashamed of themselves for not risking their necks to get news as George Polk had done. Hence instead of getting across the point William Polk had wanted emphasized, that Lindley's action was, he believed, motivated...