Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Is Loyalty? Harry Truman tossed away the new loyalty test the very next morning at his press conference. What was needed, said Harry Truman, was a definition of a Democrat. Democrats, he went on, are those people who support the Democratic platform, which is the law of the Democratic Party. Would he consider votes on Taft-Hartley repeal a test of a true Democrat? He certainly would, replied the President...
...note with dismay that in last Friday's CRIMSON your sports department perpetuated the lamentable error of daily press in giving .000 as the batting or fielding average of any baseball player who has not batted or fielded...
...brass of the HAA held its second annual spring luncheon for the nutritive and intellectual development of the working press yesterday in the muggy grandeur of the Harvard Club of Boston. Prominently featured were Martinis, a mixed grille; green garden peas, and a strawberry sundae, but the piece de resistance was a frank on-the-record discussion of Harvard spring football by head coach Art Valpey...
Rarely has a show reached its 100th-performance milestone in spite of a hostile press. All for Love is rarer still: it got there in spite of an apathetic public. Its only impetus has come from a stubbornly stagestruck millionaire named Anthony Brady Farrell, an angel with the largest wingspread ever seen on Broadway.* In the year since Farrell took a leave from his Albany chain factory, he has spent more than $2,000,000 plunging where others fear to tread...
Nine years later, old Professor Shafer published a sprightly brief of his findings : The Ways of a Mud Dauber (Stanford University Press; $2.50), a slender (74 pp.) book telling what he learned about Sceliphron cementarium during several happy summers. The volume is dedicated to a crippled mud dauber, "Crumple-Wing," of which Shafer was especially fond...