Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ended the Christian Science Monitor's taboo on mentioning death. But the Monitor still prefers the gentler passed away. In Atlanta, residents are Atlantans to the Constitution, but Atlantians to the rival Journal. In the Sacramento Bee the California weather can get warm but never (even...
While the Senate sputtered and raged, thin, harried George Allen, the ex-ambassador to Iran who took over the Voice after the silly broadcasts had been made, admitted the State Department's failure to monitor its own broadcasts. NBC, which conceded its own negligence, had already fired those responsible for the scripts. The whole graceless affair was a prime example of how Congress, in an election year, can hold itself at arm's length and punch its own nose. For Congress had 1) given the Voice so little money that it was unable to keep the frog...
Reported the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond: "[He] is a different, improved and more effective campaigner than . . . Washington correspondents have seen in action before." Wrote Columnist Joseph Alsop: "It is reassuring to be able to report that this harddriving, remarkably competent but sometimes rather inhuman governor is still growing as a man and a leader...
Reporting the speech, Roscoe Drummond, the Christian Science Monitor's veteran Washington bureau chief, wrote: "I put it as a careful statement of fact that I have never heard any political personage receive any longer, more sustained or more spontaneous applause than came from that group of overwhelmingly Republican newspaper editors. They liked what Mr. Truman had to say and they liked the way he said it. They felt an integrity, a humility, a morality of purpose . . . which stirred their esteem, their regard and their good will...
Editor Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham of the Christian Science Monitor, new president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and member of the U.S. delegation to Geneva, disagreed. Said Canham: "The conference has done no harm and has substantially advanced the cause of freedom of information...