Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge regime is that its leader has won little affection from either politicians or newspapermen in Washington, yet receives what is known as a "good press" and no little political support. The explanation seems to be that, although the President has done little to win the good graces of pressmen or politicians, both recognize his strength in the country at large...
...pressmen sought "gruff and bluff" Marshall Josef Pilsudski, who recently overthrew the Polish Government (TIME, May 24), at his General Staff Headquarters...
Feeble, haggard, Ignace Jan Paderewski sailed last week for Europe after a serious illness brought on by an exhausting concert season. Friends and pressmen, some 50 of them, came to the boat to wish him a happy summer, came to find out whether there were any truth in the report that he would go back to politics, be a candidate for the presidency of Poland...
...Bernstein himself conducted a party of pressmen and notables on the night of the formal opening. He, a Manhattan Jew whose fine necktie bore witness to his shrewdness, explained that, in order to cater to that sense of Asiatic luxury which is "proper to every good Jew," he had built the hotel around a bath. The Christians who objected to sharing their public quarters with Jews had no such splendid bath as this-no, nor had Augustus Caesar, nor has the most pompous sybarite in Hollywood. The notables, the pressmen inspected the hotel-a steel and concrete Joseph...
Press. The editor of the London Daily Mail, alarmed by all these developments, prepared a flaming anti-labor editorial, only to have his printers, machine managers, stereotypers and pressmen walk out on strike rather than send the editorial on its way. Thus the Daily Mail, "largest newspaper in the British Empire," failed to appear. The Times declared: "Unless counsels of reason prevail we are within a few hours of the most grave domestic menace which has hung over this nation since the fall of the Stuarts...