Word: accredited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Tie & Soap. Hagerty's first move was to shrink several hundred tour applications down to a manageable sum. In justice to all, he announced blandly, the White House would accredit all comers, but only one man from each news medium (the wire services and TV networks were allowed two reporters and two photographers each) would be put aboard Pan American's jet-powered Boeing 707 chartered for the press. The cost for transportation and hotels would be $4,000 per traveler, and a letter of application would be considered a contract for that amount. After this announcement...
...goth annual meeting of the T.U.C. last week found the Red electricians in a peculiarly vulnerable position: although 38-year-old E.T.U. Member Leslie Cannon had been elected a delegate to the congress by the union's membership, Frank Foulkes and "Squeaky" Haxell had refused to accredit him because he had quit the Communist Party in disgust over Russian repression of the Hungarian revolution. But when fiercely anti-Communist Labor M.P. Walter Padley jumped to the rostrum to demand a debate on this piece of party-lining highhandedness, the congress exploded into an angry uproar. With Cannon looking...
...given in schools for all whose parents ask it; 2) that church appointments no longer be subject to state veto. Having gained these concessions, the Vatican last week named five auxiliary bishops to long-vacant Polish dioceses in the western lands taken from Germany (the Vatican did not accredit them to specific districts so as to take no sides in the German-Polish territorial rivalry). Finally, the Gomulka government released imprisoned priests to resume their parish work in Silesia...
...airfields under British bombardment, the Egyptian capital was also the hardest place for a correspondent to get to. None made it last week, though some were trying by way of Khartoum and Libya. By commercial plane and chartered flight, 50 correspondents streamed into Tel Aviv. But Israel refused to accredit any foreigners to its forces, gave out the news in meager communiques. Newsmen tried to drive to the front in taxicabs, but the roads were closely guarded, and few made it. Yet they managed to file 800,000 words in the first four days of hostilities, all through two weary...
...with no parallel in the annals of free nations." But by the end of the war, the press had accepted the Army's insistence that it show some responsibility. On their side, most of the generals recognized the correspondent as at least a necessary evil; they began to accredit him officially, supply him with fodder for his horse, bivouac for his tired bones, and, every now & then, even a tot of whisky...