Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stay-late guest at a White House press conference (the Cleveland Press's Preacher-Columnist Dilworth Lupton) Franklin Roosevelt confided that he wished reporters wouldn't use that term New Deal. There is no need of a New Deal now, said the President. He hoped somebody would think up a catchy way to sloganize...
Cynical Report. The whole idea had got away to a bad start with a skeptical press and public. The mischief-making of the New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell (TIME. June 21), who spread scandalous gossip of moral conditions among WACs, hurt all the services...
Each Sunday in the London Express, Columnist Nathaniel Gubbins writes to & for the ordinary people of Britain (TIME, March 8). They understand him, laugh with and at him. On Nov. 21, before the Cairo and Teheran conferences stirred the world, Columnist Gubbins (alias Astrologer "Old Moore" Gubbins) wrote...
...days before, two New York labor reporters had asked John L. Lewis the most unexpected question of the year: Would he support F.D.R. for re-election in 1944? The dead-pan answer, indirectly quoted by the N.Y. Post's young labor columnist Victor Riesel: "It all depended on whom the Republicans nominated [Lewis] said almost softly. . . . Lewis would probably take Governor Dewey. Any other G.O.P. nomination would force him to consider backing Mr. Roosevelt...
Brendan Bracken, Britain's Minister of Information, attacked by an irrepressible Leftist M.P., an irresponsible Manhattan columnist, verbally cracked their heads together. The M.P., Emanuel Shinwell, had been scandalized by the columnist's report that Bracken had "found better British woolens" than London's in Manhattan, ordered nine suits there. The columnist's story was all wool but a good deal wider than a yard: actually, Bracken had brought some cloth given him by a "generous American" to nurses in London...