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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This setting of the stage was enough to jam 168 reporters into the President's press conference two days later. With a tight-lipped grin, Truman said he had nothing to announce, but he understood there were questions. The Washington Post's Edward Folliard opened the show: "Chairman McKinney told us you are planning to take drastic action toward a Government housecleaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: An Angry Man | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...showing indignation at the evildoers, the President seemed to have saved it for the U.S. press; his main points at the conference were to minimize the scandals and to insist that his Administration, not congressional committees, deserved the credit for what housecleaning has been done. In answering Reporter Folliard, he said that continued drastic action was a better phrase than drastic action. There is really nothing unusual or new in the current situation in Washington. This sort of thing is going on all the time. Some people go wrong and are fired. Oh, the trouble may be a little higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: An Angry Man | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Edward T. Folliard, 52, has been the Washington Post's crack all-round reporter for years. For his series exposing the anti-Catholic, anti-Negro Columbians in Atlanta, he won a Pulitzer Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: CORE OF THE CORPS | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...Pail." Managing Editor Jones snapped up the news coverage. He hired good reporters and rewrite men to turn out crisp, accurate copy, set up the Post's national bureau to cover official Washington. Now staffed by such old-timers as Eddie Folliard, Al Friendly and Ferdinand Kuhn (at State), it is still one of the capital's best bureaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: House That Butch Built | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

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