Word: columnists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object of the dinner was to honor the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who had been the target lately of some salvos fired by Columnist Drew Pearson. When Argentina's Juan Perón sent along a medal for General Vaughan, "a brilliant soldier in the glorious Army of the United States," Pearson thought thegeneral's acceptance of it out of keeping with President Truman's championing of democractic principles. The members of the R.O.A. thought otherwise. To affirm their confidence in General Vaughan, they presented him with a scroll naming him "Minute...
...commentator or columnist names any members of my Cabinet or my staff. I name them myself. And when it is time for them to be moved on, I do the moving -nobody else...
...Columnist Walter Winchell thought he had a hot tip on a romance. In his column last month, he passed it on in the leering questions: "What was His Honor, the Mayor, buying in Tiffany's the other antemeridian? Some doodad for his delovely?" New York City's Mayor O'Dwyer denied it. Not being a radio commentator, he said, he couldn't afford Tiffany...
Madison, Wisconsin, Capitol-Times columnist Aldrich Revell and Grady Clay, Jr. of the Louisville Courier, also addressed the meeting on newspapers' role in politics...
Henry Cade was pushing 30, apparently only mildly restless in his second-drawer job at Vinnaver & Jaxon. Then he got his break: the syndicate rights to a rising young columnist named Wally Pohl. In return for the rights to "Pohl's Apart," V. & J. made Henry a full partner. Then Henry realized that "you could no more want a little success than you could want a little love ... To want less than everything was to get nothing...