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Word: press (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well. In Cleveland, where he had a lot at stake this week, Phil Mur ray and jovial, ruddy Joseph Larkin, a Bethlehem Steel vice president, walked smiling into a roomful of steelworker negotiators to break the news. Then, serenaded by workers' cheers and loud singing, they called a press conference to explain the settlement. President Murray was able to walk into the C.I.O.'s highly charged annual convention with a great big confident smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Peace Terms | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

General Douglas MacArthur says that his headquarters does not interfere with freedom of the press in Occupied Japan. But sometimes, when news unfavorable to SCAP comes along, there is hidden interference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Sober Afterglow | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...long ago Tokyo's Shimbun ran a brief review of The Case of General Yamashita (The University of Chicago Press; $4), by A. Frank Reel, a labor lawyer and former U.S. Army captain, who had helped defend the Japanese commander in America's first major war crimes trial. Next day a SCAP officer phoned Shimbun and other Tokyo papers that it would be "advisable" not to mention Reel's book. The Hosei University Press was likewise cautioned not to publish it. The admonitions have been strictly obeyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Sober Afterglow | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...trying not to displease anybody very much, Prime Minister Attlee seemed to have pleased almost nobody. After he revealed his proposals for cutting down government expense (TIME, Oct. 31), almost every section of the British press heaped on him a storm of abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Grit & Tintacks | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...exactly the percentage of upperclassmen that don't make the grade for membership at Princeton's 17 eating clubs. Now mix this somewhat unpleasant statistic with the good intentions of Dean Francis R. B. Godolphin an intelligent and righteous man toss in the disgruntled mumbling of the student press, and spice with at least at least a few changes of discrimination and unfairness from students and alumni; you'll find yourself with the same appetizing that new faces both the administration of Princeton and the Club members and alumni...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Princeton Clubs Divided on Proposal to Open Membership to 100 Percent of Upper Classes | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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