Word: pressings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, Eleanor Roosevelt pointed out at her White House Press conference last week, goes for a President and his wife as well as for other folks. To women reporters curious over the fact that Mrs. Roosevelt's newspaper column, My Day, has a way of beating the President to the punch, this toasty retort was explanation enough. To others concerned over her increasing truculence along the Neutrality Front and its influence on U. S. women hell-bent for peace, it explained more fully why Eleanor Roosevelt, who four years ago said, "The war idea is obsolete," had last fortnight...
Meantime the State Department said it knew nothing about any Bullitt-Biddle conversation whatsoever. At week's end, the Department had received a more elaborate report on bombing from Ambassador Biddle, held it safe from press services and wiretappers...
...Newspapers were down to half-size and all printed the same news. This consisted of: 1) official bulletins, 2) foreign press comments from friendly countries, and 3) polemics against the English. The enemy was never referred to as Great Britain or the British Empire, but simply as England. France was seldom mentioned...
...secretly resigned and invoked a clause of the Constitution which permits the President to name his successor, naming the former Governor of Pomorze Province, a politically neutral lawyer, Wladislaw Raczkiewicz. At the Embassy the oath of office was solemnly administered to President Raczkiewicz, provoking the Nazi press to scream, "All this is a Polish farce...
...year, and its capital, Tallinn, is an ice-free port. On the pretext that the Estonian Government recently "allowed" an interned Polish submarine to chug out of Tallinn and become a commerce raider-actually it shot its way out, fired upon by harbor batteries (TIME, Oct. 2)-the Moscow press and radio have been violently attacking Estonia as "hostile" to Russia. These attacks redoubled in fury last week as Soviet stations screamed that the pint-size Russian freighter Metallist had been "torpedoed in Estonian waters" with a loss of five proletarian lives by a "mysterious submarine...