Word: pressing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What's all this talk that fills TIME and the press about President Roosevelt's great task to achieve national unity? Isn't it rather the other way around - that the losers must yield to permit that unity? Does TIME imply that unless the President now satisfies them, there will be, among Republican leaders and industrialists, open defiance to the authority of government...
...exile is Newsman Dávila. He is a sort of unofficial Chilean Ambassador, through his Editors Press Service, Inc. makes big medicine for Franklin Roosevelt in Latin America. Last week Carlos Dávila was on his way back to Chile in a U. S. Army bomber. With him went his wife. Herminia Arrate de Dávila...
...bound to be prepared for a long period of possible danger. Who can say with assurance that we shall not need for our defense or peaceful pursuits every possible shipbuilding resource, particularly those that exist and may be developed in the interior of our country? ... I am preparing to press for immediate construction- of this project...
...Turkish press, long held in check, assumed a sudden truculence. "If we are forced to choose between fighting like lions or being driven like sheep ... we shall not hesitate to give an example of virile courage that will astonish the world," wrote the Government organ Ulus. "The boasted equality . . . means nothing but equality in slavery under Germany and Italy," scoffed Yeni Sabah...
Another editor once called Grover Hall "a fat radical advised by a cat named Clarabelle." Famous through the South was Clarabelle, Grover's office cat. When she died last fall, Associated Press put her obit on the wire. For the Advertiser Editor Hall wrote an editorial a column and a half long. Said he: "At this moment of sadness the Advertiser beseeches its friends and the followers of Clarabelle NOT to give this office another cat! The Advertiser is fed up on cats and does not wish to be bothered with another...