Word: press
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...QUARTER LINES OF TYPE, YOU HAVE ACHIEVED, I BELIEVE, THE WORLD'S RECORD FOR MAKING THE MOST ERRORS IN THE SMALLEST SPACE. I REFER TO TIME, OCT. 18, IN WHICH YOU STATE THAT IN A POLL OF 51 MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, PRESIDENT TRUMAN WAS THE ONLY MEMBER TO PREDICT HIS OWN VICTORY. YOU DESCRIBED MR. TRUMAN AS A "LIFETIME" MEMBER OF THE CLUB...
Facts & Figures. Brisk and beaming at an early morning press conference, General Clay scattered the good news like bird shot. In Western Germany, he said, "there has been an almost unbelievable recovery." The airlift into beleaguered Berlin, he said, now carried 5,000 tons of food and fuel a day during good weather and 3,000 "under very bad conditions." This would be enough to keep Berlin supplied through the winter; besides, he had wangled 66 additional C-54s for the airlift (see Armed Forces...
Among other items, it contains complete directions for the registrant to draw up an informational "resume" about himself, which includes the vital statistics that will interest a prospective employer. The candidate uses this as a personal publicity release in his job-hunting. Toole stresses the importance of well-organized press-agentry for career-seekers...
...Beale must do more than continue to show that he is an A-1 airman. He must know the difference between orders that really are orders, and orders that Washington has issued mainly to keep the press and public happy...
...scandal. Angry Negro officers, hitherto amenable to unofficial discriminatory rules, decide that this is the moment to claim their right to membership in the "restricted" officers' club. Knowing the effect this will have on white personnel, Gus Beale orders MPs to keep the Negroes out. Soon the U.S. press is ablaze with a garbled, press-service version of the story, while Washington, drawing back its skirts, coldly leaves Beale holding the bag. When the book ends, the storm has subsided as suddenly as it began. It is ready to break out again any day; but meanwhile Gus Beale...