Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight ago Correspondent Don Burke closed TIME Inc.'s Cairo bureau and made his exodus from Egypt. During his year there as bureau chief, the war in the Holy Land made things unusually difficult for journalists. The press censorship was intolerable to the point where Egyptian censors even rewrote correspondents' copy to suit themselves ; there were repeated acts of violence against foreigners on the streets of Cairo; TIME was banned for being "unfriendly to the Arab cause" after our May 24 cover story on King Abdullah of Transjordan...
Even the most ardent Democrats clucked despondently over the latest presidential bobble. At his press conference, the President was asked if he knew of any domestic crisis at the moment. Without batting an eye, the man who had demanded an emergency recall of Congress only seven weeks ago, on the grounds of a serious domestic crisis, replied that he had not been told...
...Dixiecrats' vice presidential candidate, urged all Mississippians to behave. In Greensboro, N.C., Judge E. Earle Rives sentenced two teenage egg-throwers to write over & over: "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." The nation's press, including the South's, lectured on the right of free speech...
...year-old Indianapolis News, once published by Theodore Roosevelt's Vice President (Charles W. Fairbanks), was long the kingpin of the Hoosier press. James Whitcomb Riley and Kin Hubbard once graced its staff, and Press Lord Roy Howard, a home-town boy, got his first newspaper job at $4 a week. Lately, with rising costs and dwindling profits, the News needed a new building and new presses-and perhaps a new management...
...Freedom? The two speakers got almost equal applause. In a press conference afterwards, Hromadka skillfully handled hostile questions. How had the Communist coup affected religion in Czechoslovakia? Said he: "Our churches are more relevant today than they have been in many decades." Was it possible to have a free church in a Communist state? "So far we have been left alone. I don't know what the Communists may do to the church tomorrow. But if they try to restrict my freedom I know what I will do. I will say no. I will go to prison." Later, Hromadka...