Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With some wonderment in its tone, Canadian Military Headquarters in London said that in the field of absence-with-out-leave Adrien Demers was probably "standing broad-jump champion" of the Canadian or any other army. In Bordon, Hampshire, last week, the stubby, 35-year-old lance corporal from South Granby, Quebec, blandly pleaded guilty to being AWOL for "1,692 days, twelve hours, 20 minutes...
...tone of the colored news you have been presenting to the public gives the impression that the Supreme Commander has been negotiating with the Japanese Government. . . . The Supreme Commander will dictate orders to the Japanese Government. He will not negotiate with it. Negotiations take place among equals...
Last week two stubborn men came to the parting of the ways. Out as a Hearst editor went rough, tough Lou Ruppel, ex-captain of Marines (TIME, Jan. 15). He had tried to give Hearst's Chicago Herald American the same rowdy tone he had given the tabloid Chicago Times before the war. But the cold, tired old voice that came over the telephone from San Simeon was not pleased, and out blew...
William Randolph Hearst wants his papers run his way. Instead, Lou Ruppel swung out on his own, started a civic clean-up campaign which blasted Chicago as a "dirty shirt town." The Chief summoned Ruppel, ordered him to tone it down. When Ruppel played up Ernie Pyle's death, he was dressed down for overpublicizing "our rival" (Pyle wrote for Scripps-Howard), even though the rival was dead. And when Ruppel tossed out Hearst's dearly beloved top-of-the-page red headlines, oldtime Hearstling Robert Wiley was rushed to Chicago to "breathe more Hearst into the paper...
...Presidential tone was cheerfully optimistic. Looking ahead, he saw that if the nation could deal with the problems of peace as boldly as it did with the problems of war, it could soon be off on the "greatest peacetime industrial activity we have ever seen." So honeyed and inspiring were his words that the New York Daily News headlined: PRESIDENT PLANS PEACETIME BOOM...