Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both sides of the Channel, newsmen mobilized enough equipment to report a medium-sized war: rocket signals, marine radios, walkie-talkies, telescopes, carrier pigeons, eight boats and three planes. But Shirley May's target date (Aug. 14) came & went. Reporter Bob Musel, ghosting her diary for N.E.A. and covering the story for United Press, blamed repeated postponements on training hitches and bad weather. Delicately, he skirted the main reason, which Editor & Publisher reported as "a delay due to a monthly occurrence peculiar to women...
...moment, the crowd of 130 newsmen thought they had something. What did he mean by the word "surrender?" He meant exactly what he said, replied the President crisply. The war of nerves is slacking off very decidedly, the President said: that's just as plain as it possibly can be and I am hopeful that the war of nerves will cease and that everybody will get in the mood for world peace and then it will just take a short time to get everything worked out as it should be. Then the United Nations will function as it should...
...Challenge. Hoffman first deftly disposed of some stock British alibis and delusions. For one thing, he said in answer to newsmen's needling questions, the U.S. does not have to sell goods to Britain or to anyone else in Europe to stay prosperous. For another, he admitted that U.S. tariff policies could stand improvement ("too many [Americans] believe that imports harm rather than enrich their country"), but he pointed out that, within existing U.S. tariff barriers, British exporters still had ample opportunities. The trouble was that the British had not tried hard enough to exploit them...
While the Cominform sat, all the Balkans were abuzz with ominous rumor and foreboding fact. U.S. newsmen in Belgrade reported three mechanized Soviet divisions moving westward through Hungary and Rumania. Borba, the official voice of Belgrade, charged that Rumania was inciting Communists in Hungary, Albania and Bulgaria to join in carving up their larger neighbor with Russian help. Three recent train wrecks in Yugoslavia prompted Railways Minister Todor Vujacinovic last week to warn against impending Cominform sabotage. Two days later, fires broke out simultaneously in four parts of Yugoslavia's huge Romsa oil refinery in Fiume. A Russian warship...
Coolidge's Vice President and now board chairman of Chicago's City National Bank and Trust Co., celebrated his 84th birthday by brushing off newsmen who wanted his views on the state of the world. Growled Dawes: "I'm an old man. No one wants to hear what I have...