Word: drummonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROSCOE DRUMMOND, the Republican New York Herald Tribune's chief Washington correspondent: The real "secret weapon" of the Republican campaign and the Republican winner of 1954 is Ezra Taft Benson, the flexible-price-support Secretary of Agriculture. The "farm revolt" just didn't develop. And Secretary Benson has shown himself to be, not the bogeyman, but the strong man of the Republican campaign, second only to the President himself...
...ROSCOE DRUMMOND, New York Herald Tribune Washington bureau chief: Most of the forecasters are in agreement : the Democrats will win the House by twenty to forty seats, take control of the Senate by three to five seats, win several important governorships from the Republicans, including Pennsylvania and possibly New York, and will lose none of the governorships they now hold. The party in power almost always loses [House] seats in the mid-term voting. If [the Republicans] can hold their losses to, say, twenty seats, that would be considered a Republican victory, since the average loss of House seats...
...ROSCOE DRUMMOND, longtime Washington correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor and now the Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Herald Tribune...
Dwight Eisenhower knew that the question would be asked, and he knew exactly what he was going to say. At the presidential press conference, the New York Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond did the asking: What was the President's reaction to the speech made by Vermont's Senator Flanders (see col. 2). As President Eisenhower answered, the words boiled over each other; he slashed the air with his right hand; he struck his desk with the edge of his left hand. His words were temperate, but his anger was clear and deep...
...Johnson, who describes Night People as "Dick Tracy in Berlin," has been writing screenplays since 1932, producing them since 1936. Until Night People came along, he was content with the dual job, making a variety of well-turned pictures in a variety of styles (The Grapes of Wrath, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, How to Marry a Millionaire). Then, says Johnson, 56, "I got the impulse to direct. I said to [20th Century-Fox Boss Darryl] Zanuck: 'What about directing Night Peopled Zanuck said, 'What will Peck say?' " Johnson checked with Actor Peck. "He looked kind of startled...