Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of the exasperation of a man whose best friend is down on his luck: there was a readiness to help, a realization that the friend's desperate situation wasn't exactly, or entirely, his own fault-and some annoyance. Dwight Eisenhower, in a casual press-conference remark at a family reunion in St. Louis last week, caught some of that mood. Said he: "Their situation is terrible and they must have sympathy, but we must realize that we are not a bottomless...
...course he had been rather disappointed that a war of nerves had persisted for the last three or four years, Harry Truman told his press conference. But he was hopeful that it would end in surrender, just like the shooting...
...cheery on the subject of his bumbling military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who stood dully behind him at the press conference. "Mr. President, do you contemplate any change in your military aide?" he was asked. I do not, said Harry Truman. When another reporter tried to get in a further question, the President said sharply that the committee hearing was held down at the Capitol: we will not continue it up here. And that...
...Press Attache Joseph Kolarek explained the change. A Czech Foreign Office official had called him up and said: "Mindszenty is a criminal. Having his picture in the window is an unfriendly gesture to Czechoslovakia...
Deputies & Dukes. In mid-July Giuliano returned to his redoubt and wrote to the Palermo press, issuing an ultimatum to the police. Unless they released his relatives and friends within two weeks, he said, his gang would launch an offensive. The police did nothing. Scarcely a week after the fortnight's expiration, Giuliano had captured five wealthy landowners, including the haughty Duke of Pratomeno and a deputy to the Sicilian Parliament. He demanded a ransom of 100 million lire apiece...