Word: ap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edgar Hoover appeared in front of the Senate Internal Security Committee and refuted a major part of Mr. Truman's speech. The report of this testimony, which was headline news in almost every other newspaper in the country, was carried by the CRIMSON only in the AP wire dispatch. And yet a three-column front page spread was given to the HLU telegram signed by 441 students congratulating Truman...
...Buenos Aires, with its docile press, rumors are often the apėritifs and canapės that come before a feast of news. Last week Argentines were enjoying the headiest, spiciest assortment of rumors since last April, when President Juan Perón survived a crisis of bomb-throwing by his enemies. The choicest tidbits...
Kelso had another exclusive on the appointment of President-Emeritus James B. Conant as High Commissioner to Germany last February. Compare the Post articles on the confirmation of Conant with the regular Associated Press stories, and you will find the AP's lead often buried in the fifteenth or sixteenth paragraphs of the Post. The Post deemed significant the fact that "Conant appeared to be talking nervously over the phone" after appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The day the AP reported Conant's confirmation virtually certain, the Post headlined PROTESTS MOUNT OVER CONANT, and Kelso predicted the fury...
Miller listed Princeton as one of the 18 colleges most deserving censure for hypocritical recruiting policies and financial support of athletes, according to an Associated Press review of the book. The AP quoted Miller as saying that these colleges "are dedicated to the single objective of winning...
Kenneth Fairman, director of athletics at Princeton, laid the blame for the popular misunderstanding of the book's charge squarely on the Associated Press. He called the AP dispatch "middle of the week space filler...