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...challenge. Some of the critical materials we work with also use older, slower methods of communication. Newspictures, for instance, generally go by plane or train-as does background editorial copy designed to be kept on file until events make it news. Dailey's job, in part, is to dispatch and pick up these slower moving materials with the least loss of time...
Bevin flew back to London two days later, and in a memorable speech in the House of Commons he made official Jean-Jacques Granier's reaction. Pounding a dispatch box with his heavy hands, Bevin said: "The reply of the Soviet Government is awaited . . . [but] I shall not be a party to holding up the economic recovery of Europe by the finesse of procedure, or terms of reference, or all the paraphernalia which may go with it." Bevin added that he as Foreign Secretary of Britain had been helpless because he had "neither coal nor goods nor credit...
...Nice Mess." Knight writes seven localized sport columns to go with the tables, so that the Portland Oregonian can tell its readers when to go deer hunting while the Miami News tips off its readers to the best sail-fishing time. Among other subscribers: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Bulletin...
Reports from both London and Moscow reported qualified optimism that the conference may be able to accomplish results. An Associated Press dispatch from Moscow said Soviet interest in all news of the Marshall plan was marked, and that this was a healthy sign...
...news stories. George L. Berry, president of the A.F.L. pressmen's union, had sent a telegram to his St. Louis local, ordering it to drop its plan for a slowdown strike. When the pressmen discovered a story about Boss Berry's decision in the afternoon Post-Dispatch and Star-Times they pulled the pressroom switches and walked out, right in the middle of the press run. After a five-hour walkout, union leaders, aware of the evil implications of such press censorship, talked the pressmen into going back-but too late for the rest of that...