Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politics or Business? On his instructions, Press Secretary Charlie Ross summoned officials of the four radio networks to the White House one day last week and asked for air time for that night. Having in mind the rules of the campaign, the network officials asked: "Is this political or is it Government business?" Government business, said Ross. When they looked skeptical, Ross swore them to secrecy and told them of the President's idea. They went away to think it over...
They went into conference, to emerge with two formal statements for the press. The President had called him home, the Marshall statement said, to talk things over. The President was chiefly concerned about "the intransigent attitude of the Soviet government during the debate on the atomic problem." They had discussed the Vinson matter. "The President decided it would not be advisable to take this action. The matter was then dropped." The Secretary had heard talk of a split between the President and himself. "There is no foundation for this," he said...
Henri Queuille was hoping for a miracle. What he would actually get, if some of his colleagues had their way, would be a stab in the back. A plan was afoot to bring the Communists back into the government. Chief instigator was that old darling of the U.S. press, Edouard Herriot, President of the Assembly. Following Herriot's lead were about 30 Socialist deputies, a score of M.R.P. deputies and a few Radicals. One of this group explained their ideas...
Outside the open prison door they found a fat Sternist with thin red hair, lazily cracking fried watermelon seeds between his teeth. When a prison warden barred their entrance, the journalists appealed to the Sternist. He ushered them in and rounded up some fellow prisoners for a press conference. Prison guards fretfully pleaded that this was against regulations. Some prisoners crossed the square and returned with bottles of cold beer for their friends; they used the handle of the jail door as a bottle opener...
...providing space in Michie Stadium for several thousand Harvard spectators, has apparently acted in haste and with indiscretion. Several hundred of the best seats in the Crimson sections, seats which should have gone to students, alumni, and former "H" men, were withdrawn by West Point Officials for "non-working press and pre-season commitments." It now appears that these tickets have been sold by the Army box office into channels which brought them to New York speculators for public sale...