Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the Press Club received a polite refusal. "While I deeply appreciate the great honor conferred on me . . ." Costello wrote, "I cannot accept ... I never made a speech in my life and the very thought of it almost scares me to death. Even the idea of facing members of the press gives me the shivers, although not nearly so much now as before November last, when you loused up the election situation and the betting odds...
...sometimes think the American public doesn't understand very much about diplomacy. These things are not discussed with ambassadors-and they cannot be discussed with the press. And you can quote me on that...
...Depending on whether they read their news in English or French, Montrealers last week got different slants on the same story. The French-language press reported that a man named Taillefer had pleaded guilty to five charges of keeping and selling narcotics. English papers were more specific: the man was the Rev. Arthur Taillefer, curate of the Roman Catholic Church of Ste.-Madeleine d'Outremont. In the prisoner's dock at the Palais de Justice, Father Taillefer had confessed that he was a key figure in the biggest narcotics ring ever uncovered in Montreal...
...Communist union weeklies have sometimes printed labor news that sounded as if it were right from the party line. They had little choice. The top labor news service, supplying 200 of the nation's 800 labor papers, was the pink-hued Federated Press. But last week a rival agency, with financial backing from several big A.F.L., C.I.O. and independent unions, was well under way in Washington. The new, non-political Labor Press Association had already signed up 193 clients, including such important papers as the C.I.O. News, the Machinist and the I.L.G.W.U.'s Justice...
Organized as a cooperative like the Associated Press, the L.P.A. elected Rubin Levin of the Railway Brotherhoods' weekly Labor as president, and hired Irving Fagan as editor and general manager. Wiry, able Irv Fagan, a 20-year veteran of the newspaper business (the Philadelphia Record), heads a Washington staff of seven, a national staff of 15 part-time correspondents. The L.P.A.'s top byliner: Old Washington Hand Nathan Robertson (PM). Cost of the service: $2 to $15 a week...