Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest punch was in his sentence calling for a special session of Congress. That was the President's own idea and it was a well-kept secret. Less than half a dozen party bigwigs knew of his decision. Harry Truman was determined to surprise the delegates and show them that they had nominated a man with fight...
Repercussions started popping almost immediately. From Johannesburg came an excited statement from a group of Anglican churchmen denouncing such "secret negotiations." In London, the Catholic Herald deplored the "rumor" that Anglicans "may be seeking spiritual reunion" with the Roman Catholic Church. If the letters were in fact diplomatic feelers, said the Herald, they were "not regarded in that light by the Vatican...
Thanks to four on-the-spot darkrooms and an Acme-developed machine called the Trans-Ceiver, only 23 minutes elapsed from the time a photographer shot a picture in the hall until Acme transmitted it to a newspaper client's office anywhere in the U.S. When the Secret Service locked the Convention Hall doors after President Truman arrived, incidentally trapping A.P. and I.N.P. messengers, Acme's margin of half an hour on the other services jumped temporarily to an hour...
This vague, sweeping document has given Japanese editors the willies. Among its provisions: 1) stories must adhere strictly to truth (and only the Army knows what that is) and make no destructive criticism of the Allies; 2) there must be no editorializing or propaganda. Most big Japanese papers issued secret monthly guidebooks to keep their staffs posted on the changing interpretations and taboos of the touchy U.S. censors. Sample advice: don't say that U.S. newsmen chewed gum at the opening of the Diet (they did, but the press must not present such an "unfavorable" picture of the occupation...
...addressed to the "hip harness and bosom bolster business," heralded a wartime camouflage cloth impregnated by a top secret process with "a per- manent odor of hibiscus, hydrangea, and old rubber boots." It concluded: "If you want to achieve that careless look and avoid skater's steam, kill two birds with one stone by getting a camouflaged callipygian* camisole." Such lusty ballyhoo - for Springs Mills' "Springmaid" fabrics - startled readers of the high-necked New York Times. It drew stares from some readers of TIME, FORTUNE, This Week and the Saturday Evening Post, which also ran the illustrated...