Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suspended Judgment. Next day it became evident that Hathorn's testimony-and that of other witnesses-had made a different impression at the White House. The President stepped forward at his weekly press conference, with Harry Vaughan in the background drawn up to a militiaman's position of attention, and angrily denounced the investigation as unfair...
...Backbone. As the conference approached, the U.S. press sat up and took notice. It was natural that most U.S. papers, from the polite New York Times to the loud-roaring Hearst press, should pointedly recall the $3.75 billion U.S. loan to Britain, which the British had long since run through, and more than a billion dollars worth of ECAid, which had kept the British going so far. It was also natural that the press of a capitalist, free-enterprising democracy should blame Britain's Socialist government and its works (e.g., nationalization of coal and railroads, the billion-dollar...
Before the U.S. press had got very far, the British hit the ceiling. War Secretary Emanuel Shinwell, who like most other Labor leaders has been free in his denunciation of free-enterprise capitalism as practiced in the U.S., last week cried petulantly: "Our magnificent efforts in the past are being overlooked." Cried the tabloid pro-Laborite Sunday Pictorial: "It is fair to say that the British are riled; in fact, we are damned annoyed...We British are tired of Yankee insults...
Some American comment was indeed impolite and some of it was unfair; a great deal more was sound and factual, and it could have given British readers a close view of their plight, which they appeared never to have gotten so clearly from their own press or their government. Britons who, when they got the U.S. loan, complained that U.S. prices were too high (and would cut down the amount of goods Britain would be able to buy in the U.S.) now cried that U.S. prices were too low; British manufacturers could not compete with them. Other Laborite headlines: "Stop...
...Fawcett's Life Story was runnerup with 700,000 readers. But almost everybody was doing it. At 10? a throw, America's girls & boys, aged 8 to 80, would soon have their pick of 100 love & romance books, published by two dozen different concerns, with an average press run of 500,000 copies. Said Fawcett's Helen Houghton last week: "It's the trend, and it's terrific...