Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were definite majority attempts to silence dissenting delegates. First example of this "pressure," as Warshaw calls it, came after the opening speech of the delegation. The speech had been dutifully reported in the Hungarian Press, picked up by the U. S. embassy and included in its daily press summaries. These in turn were given to the U. S. delegation for distribution to its members. This was a regular service of the Embassy; it sent the Steering Committee of the delegation 150 such press summaries every...
...above all, the 17 to 10 odds quoted by the Associated Press last night reflect the Yankees' clear-cut advantage over the Flock in pitching strength...
...reporters hit the foyer at a dead run, tore through the lobby, and smashed the nose of a stuffed deer on their dash to pressroom telephones. "Bulletin! Bulletin!" shouted Tony Vaccaro of the Associated Press. Said Smith to the U.P.: "Flash!" Bob Nixon yelped at the International News Service switchboard: "Flash, goddammit, gimme the desk!" At 11:05, bells on U.P. and I.N.S. tickers in hundreds of newspapers signaled the big news flash. Three minutes later, the A.P.'s bulletin was on the wire...
...Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association dug up an "exclusive" story: RUSSIA HAS 4 ATOM PLANTS. (N.E.A. got the tip from an "escaped Soviet industrial official.") The New York World-Telegram's scareheads on the story overshadowed advice at the bottom of the page, which most of the press had taken: NO REASON FOR ATOM HYSTERIA...
Good Company.The government asked for a court order to make the Lorain Journal stop all this. (Penalty for disobeying: fines and jail sentences.) Attorney General J. Howard McGrath emphasized that the suit did not abridge freedom of the press. Said he: "As the Supreme Court pointed out in the Associated Press case, freedom to keep others from publishing news is not guaranteed by the Constitution" (TIME, July...