Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the press table (where he was sitting as Newsweek's military columnist), retired General Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, 58, former Air Force Chief of Staff, shouted: "Am I supposed to be a witness here?" He added: "If I didn't make that statement, I'm willing to make it now." Radford retorted mildly: "We haven't quite reached that stage. We have camera guns that do almost as well...
Even Money. The President flew back to Washington having obviously enjoyed himself, and went on about his business during the rest of the week with the air of a man determined to make the best of a difficult world. He reminded reporters gathered for his weekly press conference that it was his 200th formal meeting with them. He liked press conferences, he said, and though he occasionally got annoyed with their bosses, he thought most of the assembled newsmen were eminently fair...
...weekly White House press conference, Harry Truman was asked whether such heat-turning-on was "a new departure in policy." It was not new at all, replied the President. He recalled that when he was a Senator, National Chairman Jim Farley had put the heat on him, tried to get him to vote for Alben Barkley instead of the late Pat Harrison for Senate majority leader. Senator Truman, President Truman confessed, had voted for Pat Harrison anyway...
Because the press reports of his first trial had been of "such unprecedented volume and in some respects of such extraordinary virulence," said Hiss, he thought there was no chance of getting a fair trial in Manhattan. To back up his argument, he produced photostats of 40 New York newspaper articles which he considered prejudicial to his defense and the affidavits of two of the four jurors who voted for his acquittal in his first trial. Both of them swore that they had received threatening letters and postcards, urging them: "Drop dead or go to Russia." Hiss wanted...
...their frequent Eight-Ball dinners, members of the Greater Los Angeles Press Club like to rub elbows with men of distinction. President Truman addressed the club once; so did Vice President Alben Barkley and General Mark Clark. The guest speaker at the next dinner, the members decided, should be Manhattan's urbane and ubiquitous Frank Costello, sometime bootlegger and big-time gambler...