Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press specifically, Field Marshal Smuts added these words: "You gentlemen of the press of the United States have a greater responsibility than any human beings have ever carried. You are the guides of the people and your responsibility is to lead them aright. See that they keep the flame burning, that they will be ready to meet any emergency that may arise...
...Washington, Administration officials spoke in tones of unmistakable concern. At a press conference in the State Department's second-floor auditorium, a sober Secretary of State told newsmen that the situation was "very, very serious." Next night, before the Federal Council of Churches in the echoing Gothic nave of Washington's great unfinished cathedral, the Secretary repeated his warnings...
...Army Douglas MacArthur puffed at one of his 17 pipes (including five corncobs) and ran a careful eye over the words he had penciled on two sheets of blue-lined paper. Satisfied, he touched the buzzer, handed the sheets to an officer and said: "Have this released to the press...
...Communist-fronters. This hostile sentiment on personal rather than professional grounds was never founded on rational analysis. Nevertheless, it remained one of the emotional realities of the Pacific war to the end. Last week, when the MacArthur candidacy was announced, it flared up into fresh flame and attracted more press attention than the political cheers for the general...
...spread to almost every college campus and to more than a dozen large cities. In Boston, student veterans at Harvard, M.I.T. and Boston U. rallied around a slogan: "Give him a medal, but not the White House." The extreme criticism was matched by extreme praise in the Hearst press which had been beating the tom-toms and claimed the general as its "Man of the Hour" (TIME, March 15). In general, the U.S. press welcomed him to the stage...