Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since this quickly came to be regarded as a slap not only at Bohlen but at Herter, Press Secretary Jim Hagerty worked fast to get the record straightened out. The President, in fact, had known and admired Chip Bohlen for years, had stood of Joe McCarthy and other powerful Senate Republicans (who grumbled that Russian-speaking Bohlen was a key figure at Yalta) to get him nominated in 1953 to Moscow. At week's end, after he simmered down, Ike by cable fired off statements of confidence to Bohlen in Manila. Chances were good that personable Chip Bohlen would...
...living slice of Americana," burbled a fashion-industry press release. The slice: the 47-model fashion display to be shown four times a day at the U.S. exhibition opening in Moscow late this week. But when 250 fashion editors of U.S. newspapers and magazines saw a preview in Manhattan last week, 41 of them signed a petition protesting that the half-hour show was "not representative of the American way of life...
Innumerable letters from outraged citizens and hapless victims pour in to British M.P.s demanding protection from the suffocating grip of bureaucracy. Sometimes the press takes up specific cases with a hue and cry, like that of Crichel Down, where a farmer defied the War Department's right in time of peace to hold onto land commandeered in time of war. or pleads for a Mrs. Christos, who went to jail for earning milk money for her children while on the dole (TIME, June 15). But often an M.P. has either too much work or not enough spunk...
...while Sweden has three, who respectively 1) guarantee Parliament against abuse by government officials, 2) guarantee Parliament against abuse by the military, 3) guarantee the King against abuse by officials. All three are obliged by law to investigate every complaint of every citizen, to ensure freedom of the press, and to begin prosecution of any official who acts wrongly or neglects his duty...
...stubborn streak of independence. (He caught Castro's eye and got elevated to the presidency because he once defied Batista and declared from the bench that Cubans have the right to rebel against tyranny.) Even while Diaz Lanz was testifying in Washington, Urrutia called a television press conference and said: "I reject the support of the Communists, and I believe that any real Cuban revolutionary should reject it openly...