Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using a side door to dodge the press, Navy Secretary John Sullivan stomped into President Harry Truman's oval study one day last week. For 15 angry minutes he criticized his new boss, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, and the abrupt cancellation of the Navy's 65,000-ton supercarrier (TIME, May 2). Then he laid down a bitter letter of resignation and headed for the door...
...Before the outbursts had subsided, Johnson plunged head first into more trouble. Johnson, who just can't seem to stay away from the press, or be discreet in front of it, let it be known that he had decided on the successor to retiring Army Secretary Kenneth Royall -though it is the President's prerogative to name his own official family. Johnson's choice was 58-year-old Curtis Ernest Calder, the $75,000-a-year board chairman of Manhattan's Electric Bond and Share Co. As soon as Calder could tidy up his affairs, probably...
...headed for the water on the run, soon had hired three pressagents and a five-room headquarters in Los Angeles' Spring Arcade Building. Last week in an off-the-record speech at the Greater Los Angeles Press Club (which he happily corroborated for the record, afterward), he announced that he was "seriously considering running for governor of California...
Slipping off to Hartford, he appeared at a press conference with Democratic Governor Chester Bowles at his side. Some time before the end of the year, they announced, Baldwin would resign from the Senate to take a $12,000-a-year vacancy on the state's Supreme Court of Errors. Though the appointment was nominally for only eight years, it was traditionally a lifetime job, and 55-year-old Raymond Baldwin would be in line for the post of chief justice in four years...
Groups of husky British MPs rushed to the locks in armored cars. After four days of discussion between a Russian general and a British brigadier, the Russians agreed not to interfere any more. For the Russian retreat the Communist press had an odd explanation. The Russians, it solemnly assured its readers, had staged the affair in order to re-establish diplomatic contact with the Western Powers...