Word: leland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend and confidant of Big-Navy men in Washington is the New York Times's Correspondent Leland C. ("Lem") Speers. One morning last week the Times headlined a dispatch from Mr. Speers: VAST SECRET FLEET IN JA PAN REPORTED. The story reported what has long been on public record: that Japan is building three to four big battleships, somewhere between 7,000 and 12,000 tons heavier than the biggest (33,400 tons) in the U. S. Navy. The news in Lem Speers's yarn was that Japan had speeded up construction of its giants, that "the Japanese...
...populace. But this populace was puzzled, incredulous, as 1,500 shock-troopers, hard-looking but amiable enough, only a few of them gripping their automatic weapons, took possession of a city of 250,000 with scarcely a finger raised against them, even with a city police escort. Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News was the first outsider on the spot to figure out one of the darkest inside jobs ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting people...
...veteran newsman who was not misled was white-haired Leland Stowe, correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. Rejected last fall by the New York Herald Tribune because at 39 he was "too old to cover a war," Newsman Stowe went to Finland for Colonel Frank Knox's paper, sent back some of the most able, eloquent dispatches of that...
Last week found Leland Stowe in Oslo...
Newsmen generally agree that Daily News correspondents abroad have so far done the best job of reporting Europe's war. Leland Stowe's report from the battlefield of Tolvajärvi, reprinted in newspapers, books, the Congressional Record, already ranks as a major war classic...