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...commanded the Army of the Potomac, and by June 1862 was only four miles from Richmond when a strong force led by General Robert E. Lee caused him to retreat from his ill-starred Peninsular Campaign. Bitter because he had not been given reinforcements, McClellan telegraphed Secretary of War Stanton: IF I SAVE THIS ARMY NOW, I TELL YOU PLAINLY THAT I OWE NO THANKS TO YOU OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON IN WASHINGTON. YOU HAVE DONE YOUR BEST TO SACRIFICE THIS ARMY. McClellan Was Soon openly antagonistic toward President Lincoln and his Administration and his criticisms became a major...
...Last week CBS was first on another score. Beginning July 1, CBS will cut its radio advertising rates by 10% to 15% for time sold after 1 p.m. Affecting 195 stations across the nation, it was the first rate cut in radio network history. The reason, CBS President Frank Stanton explained, was that television has cut CBS's evening radio audience by 10% since last year, and advertisers have been on "a buyer's strike" against radio. Said he: "We have gotten only one legitimate piece of new radio business since July...
...Stanton was able to make the radio rate cut because CBS-TV, long a dependent of the radio division, is finally earning its own way; it has been in the black since January. Last year, CBS's TV revenue equaled only 18% of its radio gross. This year, Stanton expects...
...this was complicated by Juan Perón's own unpredictable course. The same Strong Man who publicly protested that Argentina must keep its "third position" had, in the past five years, told U.S. Ambassadors George Messersmith, James Bruce and Stanton Griffis that Argentina would fight on the U.S. side in a third World War. He had repeated the sentiment last year to Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller. Afterwards, Miller had fought through a $125 million credit for Perón in Washington, insisting that no strings be attached. Last week Miller was back from another visit...
...last U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Mr. Stanton Griffis, got along fine with Peron, whom he considered charming. Mr. Griffis admitted that "there is a lack of personal liberty in Argentina," but this concerned him little. He said that his major job was "to become loyal friends" with the Perons by building up U.S.-Argentine trade; he felt that his work at such commercial diplomacy was often fouled by TIME'S reports (none of which he called untrue) on conditions in Peronland...