Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arranged hospitalization for French girls pregnant by German soldiers. She set up a "bonus" scheme to buy their babies and send them to German homes. She had four children by two previous husbands, Heiszmeyer seven from a previous marriage. In 1940, when they announced their wedding in the Berlin press, the pair declared, "We have given our eleven children a joint home." Later their family was increased to twelve...
...soon as the operation was over, Oscar Ivanissevich, Perón's surgeon, who is also his new Education Minister and until recently was his Ambassador in the U.S., held a press conference to give a play-by-play. Said he: "The wife of the First Magistrate remained in the operating room, dressed in a white nurse's costume. ... She passed all this time praying to God for the success of the operation. The President preserved his serenity. . . . Some minutes after I had begun the operation, he was heard to say: 'What a pity! My poor dear...
...press abhors the very idea of censorship, except where the nation's security is plainly involved. So does Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who has plugged for sensible security rules ever since he pried open the Navy's clam-tight policy in 1944. Military censorship ended with the war,* but the need for keeping military secrets did not. Last week Forrestal called in 22 press, radio and newsreel representatives to talk over ways to keep them...
...Star and Tribune and Des Moines Register & Tribune, last week won the $500 Raymond Clapper memorial award. Last fall, Finney reported, President Truman had approved a "security code" under which Government employees were forbidden to disclose stories "embarrassing" to Government officials. The code was dumped when Finney led the press howl of protest. At the White House Correspondents' dinner, Finney had the satisfaction of getting his check from President Harry Truman, who had made the bobble...
...rest of the U.S. press showed no hurry to get on the bandwagon. And Editor Edward T. Leech of the Scripps-Howard Pittsburgh Press felt downright sorry for the Man of the Hour...