Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were surprised that TIME, July 11 [in its report of the sweeping vindication of British press ownership by a Royal Commission] described the Daily Express as a "scandalmongering, penny paper." I cannot think that you would accept that as a true or fair description of the Daily Express...
Harry Truman himself was not the least dismayed by congressional objections. In his best "who-me?" manner, the President told his press conference that he wasn't at all concerned with whether he got all the blank-check power the bill gave him. He would be delighted if Congress worked out such details to suit itself...
Rumors swept the press that U.S. gunmen had pulled the job, but a French police spokesman said with wounded dignity: "There were no foreigners on this job, no Americans, no Italians, no nothing. This was a job conceived, planned and executed entirely by Frenchmen...
...Robert Sherwood, John P. Marquand, Lewis Gannett, Christopher Morley, Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue as a book...
...tsch confronted the Czech espionage team. They were comfortably lounging in easy chairs next to a big loudspeaker, expectantly waiting for noises from next door. Said Tütsch: "They were very much surprised to see me." Indignantly, Tütsch marched to the office of Czech Press Boss Evzen Klinger, charged him with a "flagrant breach of confidence," and headed home to the free air of Switzerland...