Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearst Columnist Walter Winchell pulled the first trigger. In a broadcast and syndicated column, he fulminated: "The Third World War is already being fought. . . . We are losing it. ... When the Communists are ready . . . there will be 50 Pearl Harbors . . . atomic explosions erasing our cities. . . . The Communists have germ warfare already. . . . The cholera plague in Egypt is suspected abroad of being a Soviet experiment.*. . . The next countries [the Russians] intend to grab are Italy and France. . . . They need France as a base to attack Great Britain, . . . American diplomats inside the curtain are under Russian guard day & night. . . . Trained Communist spies...
...Angeles, Speaker Joe Martin was a model of the professional at work. He confidently predicted a G.O.P. victory in 1948 by "a surprisingly heavy" majority. His press conference answers were short & snappy. Would he run for Vice President? "Who ever runs for Vice President?" What about Columnist Drew Pearson's remarks that Martin was seriously worried about generals-in-politics? "Who ever would contradict Drew?" Has President Truman been consulting or cooperating with Republican leaders? "I hold a fairly important post in Republican councils and I have never been told anything...
Catching the student body outside the mess hall, the aviator unleaded runners reading: "Sports columnist predicts Holy Cross defeat. We'll back him up on Saturday...
Camera-shy Albert Einstein was surrounded (from left to far left) by guests: grinning Editor Henry Agard Wallace, whose "courage and devotion" got Einstein's bravo; grinning Columnist Frank Kingdon, who got Wallace's endorsement for Senator from New Jersey; and grinning Singer Paul Robeson, who seconded Kingdon's nomination...
Lord Frank Gannett, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Bullitt, Columnist Walter Winchell. For Winchell, Vishinsky reserved his choicest invective: "The new American Baron Munchausen, famous . . . for his utterly absurd lies...