Word: pronunciamentoes
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...from Astrakhan. Pravda issued a pronunciamento: "In 1947, the prewar level of fish output must be exceeded," and published a touching letter to Stalin from the fishery collective workers of caviar-famed Astrakhan, promising to catch hundreds of thousands more ponds of fish than provided by the Five-Year Plan. This was part of a full-blast Soviet campaign to make workers and farmers meet their 1947 quotas ahead of time, "to honor the 30th anniversary of the Great October [Revolution]." For Russia was desperately short of consumer goods and dangerously short of food. Making the best...
...have become incensed of late at the way TIME has gleefully pounced upon the FCC "public service" pronunciamento in order to deliver a weekly lambasting to commercial radio...
...foreign correspondents and press services. The Administration has set the stage for some sort of violence, and the Rio conference may raise the curtain. Pressure, exerted not directly by the United States, but by the community of Pan American nations, could turn the tide for some pro-Ally pronunciamento. If it does, Sumner Welles, the United States, and the cause of the democracies can each chalk up a victory...
Said Allied Generalissimo Gamelin in his last pronunciamento before being relieved: "The British Air Force, like the French, is fighting to the last man." Actually the R. A. F. was fighting not only to the last man but to the last plane and past the point of physical exhaustion. The pilots of the R. A. F. had to make up for lack of numbers by making flight after flight and taking off on new tasks as swiftly as their planes could be refueled and remunitioned. Day and night, from end to end of the Flanders Plain, hell reigned above earth...
Besides printing every pronunciamento, bull and encyclical which the Pope may issue, Osservatore Romano's, editor, blond, stocky Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, has found occasion in the past to denounce athletics for women as a cause of sterility, condemn anti-Semitic feeling in Italy. No punch-puller is Editor Dalla Torre. More than once Osservatore Romano has dubbed Herr Hitler "Antichrist." Before World War II Osservatore Romano had a circulation of 40,000. A few copies went to Catholic editors in other parts of the world, most of the rest were sold on the newsstands of Rome...