Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book is Better Learning Through Current Materials (Stanford University Press, $3), written by members of the California Council on Improvement of Instruction and edited by Lucien Kinney and Katharine Dresden. (The Saturday Review of Literature not long ago listed it as one of the important educational books...
Admiral Bogan had written: "The morale of the Navy is lower today than at any time since I entered the commissioned ranks in 1916 . . . The situation deteriorates with each press release." The Navy's older officers, he declared, "are fearful that the country is being, if it has not already been, sold a false bill of goods...
...explosion was immediate. After the Bogan-Radford-Denfeld correspondence had been spread across Page One, Captain Crommelin admitted that he had slipped the letter to the press, was promptly blasted by Secretary Matthews as "faithless, insubordinate and disloyal" and suspended from duty. But the Navy got its hearing before Carl Vinson's House Armed Services Committee...
About ten days ago, newspapers all over the country received a tear-stained press release from West Point which stated as follows: "This year's Cadet team is the most inexperienced over to take a trip to meet a major opponent (Michigan). No less than 20 sophomores are on the squad...
Despite the pre-game weeping from the Point, Army expected to win the Michigan game. "In spite of what our press releases said, we thought we had a good chance to win the game," said backfield coaching staff member Doug Kenna on Sunday. "Everybody did all we expected, and some of them a lot more...