Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the "all in" was sounded in his weekly press conference, President Truman made an announcement that was a surprise to none of the 158 newsmen gathered in the White House Oval Room. Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall, who wanted to get back to his North Carolina law practice, had resigned (that is, Royall's third letter of resignation had been accepted). Who would get the job? The President couldn't say. Would there be other changes in the top defense command? Harry Truman said he didn't expect any major ones. But, he hedged...
...such stuff as this that overconfidence is made, and overconfidence can wreak just as much havoc in crew as elsewhere in the realm of sport. Add to this the fact that BU, which has had the whole-hearted backing of the metropolitan press all spring, is definitely out to prove themselves in this race, and you have a potential source of danger...
After casting doubt on the political loyalty of one William Benton, Hughes says that Professor Chafee, American delegate to the United Nations subcommittee on freedom of information and of the press, had been suggested for the post by Benton. He also attempts to link Chafee's name to Alger Hiss...
Mayer says that the subcommission never advocated interference in the dissemination of information; that, on the contrary, the group had gone on record as opposed to any restriction of free press aside from already existing laws about treason, incitement to violence, obscenity, and libel...
...Tribune described Chafee as "one of the most vigorous definers of the Soviet view on freedom of the press." Mayer merely points to the similarity in sound of the verbs "define" and "defend...