Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more or less the same with all of us from that time on. The Government tried in every way-censorship, threats, violence-to prevent honest reporting. The United Press's Ed Thomas sent a short message that the rebels had captured Puerto Limon and was immediately visited by an angry little man who gave him twelve hours to leave the country. For sending a story that the rebels were winning (which they were), the Panama Star & Herald correspondent was jailed. He had to leave the country under protection of the Panamanian flag...
...years since, he has retraced their footsteps everywhere in the New World except in Puerto Rico; last week the press of duties forced him to cancel a tramp-steamship trip on which he planned to go there...
...French press, which somehow got all the details, had a field day. Headlined the Paris Liberation: SACHA GUITRY EXECUTED BY RIDICULE. Said Sacha: "This is a veritable scandal...
Rumors that Emperor Hirohito would soon step down from the throne were freely aired last week in the Japanese press. Said an Imperial Household spokesman: the stories were nonsense...
Even if all the machines ran like clockwork, man in the Arctic would still be inefficient. A rifle will fire, but it takes a man to aim it and press the trigger-and a man wearing four layers of mittens has no trigger finger. Neither can he work small knobs on radio or radar sets...