Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balanced budget, debt retirement, lower taxes (in that order); Government stimulation of housing; rent control; prepaid health insurance at the state level; a permanent FEPC; the Taft-Hartley law (except for the anti-Communist and union press provisions); public power development; the U.N.; the Marshall Plan (conditioned on proof of mutual cooperation & self-help); equal attention to the problems of the Orient; Hawaiian statehood; universal military training...
...local Communist press grew restive and menacing. Tyokansan Sanomat (News of the Working People) snarled that the opponents of the pact were "dirty intriguers who imagine that by trying to postpone a solution they can still discover a way to join the imperialistic war camp. . . . This rubbish element must be wiped out of history, at least in the next elections, if not earlier...
...Lake Success, N.Y. appeared scholarly Kung Teh-cheng, 28, for a look at U.N. headquarters. He proved to be the great-great-(to the 77th generation )grandson of Confucius, in the U.S. for conversations with U.S. scholars. To the press, Kung said of U.N.: his ancestor would have okayed the general idea...
...Geneva's stately League of Nations palace, biggest building in Switzerland, the United Nations held its biggest international conference-on the world's press. Three hundred and fifty delegates from 67 nations (including 55 U.N. members) could look out last week at lofty, snowcapped peaks as they argued about lofty principles for world freedom of the press. As usual when good, bad & indifferent fellows get together, not all the debates were on an Olympian plane; there was much bitter name-calling about press warmongering, censorship, monopoly and suppression...
Recovery. Last week, by way of recovery, the U.S. delegation won a major victory. It was a victory of words, but the words were important; they spelled out the meaning of press freedom...