Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Ambassador William C. Bullitt, Minister Baudouin conveyed Marshal Pétain's "extreme indignation," but assured him for what it was worth: "There is nothing that can break the friendship of France toward the United States." To foreign pressmen M. Baudouin continued: "Yesterday's French dead at Oran have rendered us the service of liberating us from England's domination, allowing us to be politically free to follow a purely French policy." France, he added, was determined, with the consent of Germany and Italy, to defend herself by sea and air against any further attacks. French...
Among the Tribune's, stockholders were such New Deal bigwigs as Senator Norris, who put up $100; President George Berry of the Pressmen's Union, who put up $1,000; Francis Biddle, Solicitor General...
...last fortnight Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson was reading an early edition of her Washington Times-Herald. She called her office. Said Cissie: "Martha Blair bores me - kill the column." So pressmen ripped open the forms, jerked out These Charming People by Martha Blair, a column about Washington's social stratosphere...