Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ILLINOIS' Adlai Stevenson has tried twice and lost-hugely-twice. His is an old face of defeat-and what is more, neither Truman nor Rayburn has much personal use...
Small talk had no place in the back seat of Mr. Sam's chauffeured Cadillac, heading slowly toward the Mayflower Hotel, where Truman was staying. By the time the two old friends separated that night, they had agreed to use their party power and prestige to promote either Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington or Texas' Lyndon Johnson, majority leader of the U.S. Senate...
...deposits grew, Lewis helped his bank find better ways to put the money to use. Bankers give him much of the credit for a new New York State banking law passed in 1950 that enabled savings banks to invest part of their assets in stocks. He was the first president of New York's Institutional Investors Mutual Fund, an open-end stock fund for mutual savings banks that now has assets of $46 million. With it all, he was an easy man to work for: friendly, outgoing, a delegator of responsibility who enjoyed calling his staff "my family." Says...
...this enormous creative power is often not sought or realized by reporters themselves. Even more often, the act of creation is performed not by the writer but by an agency or person who has learned how to use the reporter's limitations and rules. Here, Cater does a most impressive job of documenting the many ways in which the press of a free society can be manipulated for selfish ends. The late Senator McCarthy's use of deadlines and of the "unexpected" charge which could not immediately be proved false kept him in the headlines until "over-exposure...
...more positive side, it is clear that the press can be used and can act to mobilize public opinion, or just to "sell" it for good causes. The best example, of course, is the promotion of the Marshall Plan. But there are issues--such as the discussion of "permissible levels" of Strontium 90--where reporters digging for the facts and not just for a story perform a considerable service, and there are even times when the President can use his press conference to great effect (though Cater argues that this American "Question Period" has fallen on very hard times...