Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be any more cooperative on joint economic development than he has been in the past; moreover, the technical obstacles to U.S.-U.S.S.R. foreign aid-e.g., project control, currency convertibility-are large. But the President, buoyed up by the success of his personal diplomacy to date, intends to press hard for his new approach with Khrushchev this week. As he said in his TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan in London, "There are millions of people today who are living without sufficient food, shelter, clothing and health facilities. They are not going to remain quiescent. There is just going...
...people exchange program; he was the top Soviet official with the Nixon party during much of the Vice President's trip. A harder-line Communist pressagent is Leonid llyichev, fiftyish, head of the agitprop organization set up to indoctrinate worldwide Communist parties, who as Soviet Foreign Office press briefing officer from 1954-58 liked to harass U.S. newsmen and lecture them: "After all, a newspaper worker is primarily a political worker...
...required to release funds for new projects, will probably start few of the obnoxious 67 projects. More important, in a strictly partisan decision, congressional Democrats dipped into the narrowly balanced budget to fund the oldest, most obvious form of political spending in federal politics. Cracked White House Press Secretary James Hagerty in a rare reflection of presidential cynicism: "The lure of the pork barrel was a little too much for Congress to avoid...
...Many people who are purchasing small imported cars will prefer first-class American transportation to the second-class transportation offered them by small foreign imports." So said Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest R. Breech last week, as Ford became the first of the U.S. Big Three to hold a press showing on closed-circuit television of its new 1960 compact car to newsmen gathered in 21 cities...
Mutual officials, who were not told about the deal, said they first got wind of it when Newscaster Robert F. Hurleigh (now Mutual president) went on a press junket to Ciudad Trujillo last May, was confronted with the deal by a Trujillo aide. Shocked and angry, Mutual went to the Justice Department. Trujillo's lawyer also went to the Justice Department after he failed to get the money back from Guterma, turned over the alleged contract with Trujillo...