Word: globally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind the stunt is jut-jawed Editor John W. McPherrin, whose theory is that the corner druggist is, or should be, the "neighborhood statesman." He persuaded such traveling salesmen of ideas as Eric Johnston, Maury Maverick, Vincent Sheean and William L. Shirer to write the global think pieces in sixth-grade spell-it-out fashion. Altogether, it was a strange posset for American Druggist's publisher to push over the counter. The publisher: William Randolph Hearst...
Their mission was as nebulous as it was ambitious: to examine the global hopes & fears for a postwar free press. They expected-and got -two-faced answers and open suspicion of U.S. motives from politicians, the support of editors everywhere. Their own 40,000-word report on their 40,000-mile travels was tart and sensible. Overall impression : facts are going to have as hard a time as ever getting around after the war. The traveling threesome, representing the American Society of Newspaper Editors, were the New York Herald Tribune's kindly, pipe-chewing Wilbur Forrest, Columbia University...
...Britain, as elsewhere, they were suspected of being undercover agents for the Associated Press's Executive Director Kent Cooper, whose talk of global press freedom sounds to the British like pious sales talk for the A.P. The travelers had some sharp words for Britain's Minister of Information (now First Lord of the Admiralty) Brendan Bracken, who "patently did not care much for newspapers or the profession, but he gave it lip service within limitations. He . . . said that in his opinion no [London] editor, with the possible exception of the editor of the Times, had any real voice...
Back in civvies, looking fit if slightly balder, and lacking the famous cigar, Harlow bantered with newsmen about who-is-where in the global war. Asked about chances for men whose football was interrupted by the war, Harlow said that the whole All-American team immediately after the last war was from the AEF. "The average football player will play better ball after he's out of service, I think," Dick said...
...conference "the most important human gathering since the Last Supper") to the New York Daily News's poison penman John O'Donnell. Even before the conference opened, O'Donnell said that "nothing ever was staged in this generation on such a scale of mass hypocrisy and global double cross." The News's isolationist sister, the Chicago Tribune, had already passed similar judgment : "The prime purpose . . . is to make certain that whenever the next war comes . . . we shall...