Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was Tuesday. He saw the President at noon. At 3 o'clock he appeared at the State Department for a press conference-not on ECA but on Korea and Japan. The President had not yet announced Hoffman's appointment, although every newsman at the conference knew it was in the works. They tried to make Hoffman confirm it. He sat-a benign-faced man with bright blue eyes, protruding underlip and long nose-ducking an answer. The newsmen buzzed after him out the office door. Someone asked if he would accept the job if it were offered...
...Republican & Responsible." But three hours later the news was official. Paul Hoffman, now nominated as the boss of ECA, called another press conference. It was a different Hoffman who confronted nearly 100 newsmen, photographers and newsreel men in the Statler Hotel's Congressional Room. His answers were prompt and candid. He was supposed to be a hard-boiled businessman, said a reporter. Would he be hard-boiled with Europe? "The money we put up for European recovery can only stimulate Europe's economy," he said. "It cannot create...
After an hour of speech-making, the convention adopted, by show of hands, a resolution which stated. "We are opposed to the war hysteria in the press and the attempt to orientate American foreign policy in purely anti-Russian term...
...June, 1946. Although de Gasperi has veered steadily farther to the right since he first reneged on his land reform promises after the election campaign, backing from the West has increased to an almost fanatic pitch in the last mouth with a spectacular publicity campaign in the American press, emphasizing the importance of the outcome and the strength of the Communists. This campaign achieved one of its goals in the passage by Congress of the European Recovery Program on April 2. Since then the American Ambassador has been speaking all over Italy, insisting that there will be no more American...
...students have already pledged support, will be the first since March, 1946, when a similar "Win the Peace" demonstration, sponsored by the Liberal Union, brought the Conservative League and Dadaists into the Yard to break it up. Following this clash, which resulted in a field-day for the metropolitan press, the Administration refused all subsequent requests for such meetings...