Word: pressing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...House for several days, during which the Princess visited Mount Vernon with Mrs. Roosevelt (Said she: "Why, there are no cupboards in the rooms ! Where did they hang their clothes?"). The Princess was given an ovation at a National Symphony concert in Constitution Hall, attended Mrs. Roosevelt's press conference, and, as an amateur camera enthusiast, calmly took photographs of the newscameramen snapping pictures...
Five days after Franklin Roosevelt returned to his desk, the German Foreign Office intimated that continued peace between the Reich and the U. S. hung in the balance. A Nazi spokesman complained of U. S. "pinpricks." A warning to the U. S. came from the Rome press. The Axis, having for months ignored not only U. S. aid to Britain but the whole U. S. defense program designed to thwart its plans for world domination, had decided to try talking tough...
...Roosevelt went further. He outlined in general terms an entirely new form of aid to Britain. At a press conference, after telling newsmen that there was "no news today." he held forth in monologue for 45 minutes. From it emerged the shape of his plan to aid Britain more directly without tangling in such political barbed wire as the Johnson and Neutrality Acts, for moves to amend either act would mean filiblustery months of debate in Congress while England was being bombed barren...
When was the President going to give the U. S. defense program an executive head with full executive powers? Franklin Roosevelt's regular Friday morning press conference came & went without definitive answer from the President. Big Bill Knudsen of the National Defense Advisory Commission had set the country ringing with his blast against the weekend "blackout" in U. S. industry, his plea to machine toolmen-management and labor-to speed up because of "terrible urgency...
NEITHER PEST NOR PURITAN-E. Berry Wall-Dial Press...