Word: legmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Bed. Armed with supreme self-confidence and an initial $350,000 appropriation, Kennedy sent his staff legmen into a dozen cities, headed west himself to tackle Teamster chieftains on their home grounds. One day in the west, he knocked at the door of a labor racketeer, was stopped at the doorstep by a suspicious wife...
...ubiquitous TV eye produced new techniques and new enterprise in the press. Every major news-gathering outfit monitored the convention on the TV screen. Legmen still rushed to the telephone to report news breaks to the wire services, but the first United Press bulletin on the Truman endorsement of Averell Harriman came from the rewrite man who saw it on TV. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's convention speech was hard to hear in the hall, so the Associated Press used TV sets for coverage. In New York, the Times took the tally on the presidential ballot off the screen...
...Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty to prevent any leak before the conference ended, the Secret Service men frisked some women's large handbags for signaling devices. As an extra precaution, while the conference was on, they emptied the telephone booths in the corridor outside the room; legmen assigned to hold telephones had to wait outside the booths...
Senator Warren Magnuson is a supremely confident man. Recently the Republican National Committee sent Victor Johnston, one of its ablest legmen, on a scouting expedition to Seattle to look into the chances of unseating Magnuson this year. Johnston came back to the capital with the depressing report that Magnuson seemed to be unbeatable. Soon afterward he ran into Magnuson, who greeted him warmly and said that he had heard that Vic had just been to Seattle...
...university will be influencing the most active managers and molders of the future. As undergraduates, students move on from philosophy to economics, labor, and political science, can later specialize in their chosen careers. Their work is anything but orthodox: cinema students actually help shoot Italian films; journalists work as legmen for Rome reporters...