Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hunt and his colleagues had operated. If Vaughan himself had done nothing worse, he had used the White House as a means of playing low-grade county-courthouse politics. At week's end, the President was still sticking firmly to the position he had assumed during his weekly press conference -that nothing which had happened had changed his opinion of his old friend Harry Vaughan in the slightest. Mulling Harry Truman's stubborn friendship for his military aide, the Washington Post had a suggestion to make: ". . . it seems to us that the time has come for the general...
...opposition to the U.S. in hemispheric councils. At the U.N. he made a flashy try at reconciling the Western powers and Russia on the Berlin blockade. But at home, on la Señora's orders, he was rewarded with a campaign of insulting silence in the Peronista press and on the radio (TIME...
Terrible Lies. "I just want to finish this picture and quit," she said, "because I am mentally and physically exhausted and very unhappy . . ." She accused the press of subjecting her husband to "abuse" and telling "terrible lies" about Rossellini ("It seemed they were just trying to kill him"). But what really decided her on quitting, she added, was what happened to her ten-year-old daughter recently on a Minnesota farm. "Some newspapermen dressed themselves as broom sellers to try to get a statement out of her. That was inhuman...
...course, [the press treatment] was my fault, too. You try to keep things quiet. The thing is that a movie star is a ridiculous commercial product, and the public tells you what to do. One women's group wrote me that I had once been a perfect example for mothers and now I was a horrible example. They saw me in Joan of Arc and thought I was a saint. I'm not. I'm just a human being...
Pooh-Bah. In Hobart, Okla., County Attorney Carpenter Hughes, arrested for drunkenness, declined to press charges against himself...