Word: leaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leak. In Springfield. Mass.. the Hampden District Medical Society barred reporters from a special meeting at which doctors voted to double membership dues to increase the society's public-relations program...
...FOREIGN NEWS story Reaction to Yalta is a roundup of official and unofficial reaction from abroad. In PRESS, How to Lose a Beat offers a classic example of a Washington "leak," and tells the details and pro fessional mechanics of how the Yalta papers got into public print...
...secret records of the Yalta Conference. Like other Washington newsmen, "Scotty" Reston knew that the report might be released any time. Only the day before, the State Department had volunteered to supply 24 "confidential" copies of the record to Congress. But the Democrats, knowing the record might thus leak out. refused to go along with the idea (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). As the State Department withdrew its offer, Scotty Reston went to work on his sources to turn up a copy...
...Leak. All this feverish activity proved to be too much for the Times exclusive. In Manhattan the New York bureau of the Chicago Tribune is in the Times's building, and the Trib got wind of what was going on, tipped off Trib Managing Editor Don Maxwell in Chicago. He telephoned New York Times Managing Editor Catledge, tried to make a deal: he would split the costs of preparing the texts if the Times would cut in the Trib. When Catledge refused. Maxwell went after the text himself. He told his Washington bureau to stir up Illinois Senator Everett...
...measure have claimed that it would impede police investigation. But it is difficult to see how the act would hinder the conduct of a legitimate investigation. The wire tap authorization would be kept strictly secret by the justice himself and there is little chance that word would leak out to the person under surveillance. And the bill contains the provision that in an emergency, when no judge is available, law enforcement officers may authorize wire taps on their own initiative and then secure court approval the next...