Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the instant his doctors approved the trip-"They tell me I can go," cried Ike to Press Secretary James Hagerty-the President drove himself hard, despite the fact that he was only 15 days away from his stroke. Just 45 minutes from Paris the Columbine got a message from U.S. officials that Paris was cold, with a 36° temperature and a cutting wind. Should the welcoming ceremonies at Orly airport be moved inside? Replied Eisenhower: negative...
...Briefing State Department correspondents last week on the Indonesian crisis, Press Officer Lincoln White took extraordinary pains to praise the work of U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia John M. Allison, 52. Behind-the-scenes reason: Old Far East Hand Allison had already written out his resignation in protest against a series of United Press stories from Washington saying that his reporting on the Indonesian crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS) was inadequate. Allison's Washington friends suspected that Allison's Washington rivals were planting the stories to undercut him. To buoy him up, Secretary of State Dulles cabled Allison a personal...
Macy's & Gimbels. The strike could not have been more critically timed. Heaped on the million people who normally crowd in daily on New York City's crammed acres were thousands of hot-eyed Christmas shoppers. The press and pandemonium were too much for many of the hardiest; on the second day, thousands of workers and shoppers stayed away. Retailers moaned over million-dollar-a-day losses in sales. Newspapers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in pages of retail advertising. Macy's talked to Gimbels. Macy's President Jack Straus and Gimbels' President Bernard...
...promises that the Eisenhower Administration will press for congressional renewal of the Reciprocal Trade...
Last week the Madrid government finally permitted its tightly controlled press to report that the Spanish garrison at Ifni had taken a beating. The first official casualty list enumerated 62 dead, more than 100 wounded. The government admitted that the Spanish defenders had abandoned the frontier outposts to the invading Moroccan irregulars, and had drawn back to regroup around the town of Sidi Ifni itself. Farther south in the Spanish Sahara, the Moroccan Liberation Army announced an offensive on Al Auin, declared that five desert outposts had been "liberated," with Spanish losses of 120 dead...