Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unification had rubbed some of the luster off the post of Secretary of the Navy, and made it harder to fill. Last week when Harry Truman nominated Francis Patrick Matthews for the job, the first question Washington newsmen...
...captain gave in. Gerhart was arrested, and led quietly out on deck. But then he saw an amazing spectacle: 100 newsmen were circling the ship in rented craft, cameras and notebooks poised. Gerhart Eisler threw himself on the deck and yelled as though he were having lighted cigarettes pushed into his eyes. The plainclothesmen picked him up by arms & legs and lugged him down the gangway, while cameras clicked...
...thought the treaty merely a convenience for the "warmongering" U.S. and British press), the convention guarantees foreign correspondents free movement between signatory nations, and free access to news within them-rights they already have in all the nations likely to sign such a treaty. It forbids expulsion of newsmen for lawful newsgathering, and prohibits censorship except on national-defense matters. Under its "right of correction," a signatory country that feels a correspondent has distorted the news can send its own version to his government, which must release the correction to all news agencies but may not require its publication...
...brought into the plant of the Canadian Johns-Manville Co., chief employer in Asbestos. Barricades manned by club-wielding strikers were thrown up on all roads into the town. All cars were stopped and searched. Clergymen, doctors and well-known businessmen were allowed to pass and a few newsmen got through, but they were warned to take no pictures. Policemen in Asbestos huddled inside the Johns-Manville property waiting for reinforcements...
...Newsmen cooled their heels for two hours while Chandler mulled things over with National League President Ford Frick, New York Giants officials, members of Chandler's staff and a stiff upper Lip. Finally, he called them into his office and issued a terse communiqu...