Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman was feeling pretty relaxed. Younger brother J. Vivian Truman was in town for a visit and the brothers lolled around Blair House a few evenings talking about the crops, the cattle and the chickens back home on the farm. At the President's press conference, a reporter asked whatever happened to his threat to hop a train and carry the Fair Deal issues back to the people. Well, said the President, that one was always just on the shelf and maybe it wouldn't be necessary...
With the aplomb and discretion of an admiral, Ensign Brown held his first and only press conference to describe his four year voyage. "As far as the silent treatment is concerned, I can't think of any case of anyone doing anything since I've been here. If you mean do the fellows speak to me-well, for the most part most of them do." As for the officers and civilian personnel, "they couldn't have been more impartial...
Last Wednesday the American press reported a 54-page statement by the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association. The statement, "American Education and International Tensions," was made by "20 of the nation's top educators." The newspaper stories shocked a few people, surprised a lot more. Among those both shocked and surprised were "20 of the nation's top educators...
...statement to stand. President Conant, both as one of the "20" and as the head of an institution which has always meant academic freedom, cannot let this misconception stand. He must make a statement, in Harvard's name as well as his own, contradicting the impression left by the press. We are fundamentally opposed to the President's position that Communists per se are unfit as teachers, but we are confident that his ideals are completely incompatible with those of the "Little Dies" committees. We are confident he would oppose any action resembling a "witch-hunt...
Whether weather stays hot or cold, bathers had better keep, covered while in transit to the beaches, the MDC told the Boston press Sunday. In a ruling full of technicalities and escape clauses, the MDC ordered...