Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the "all in" was sounded in his weekly press conference, President Truman made an announcement that was a surprise to none of the 158 newsmen gathered in the White House Oval Room. Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall, who wanted to get back to his North Carolina law practice, had resigned (that is, Royall's third letter of resignation had been accepted). Who would get the job? The President couldn't say. Would there be other changes in the top defense command? Harry Truman said he didn't expect any major ones. But, he hedged...
...newsmen's bench will be groaning with reserves. Jaytoo "Pasha" Snail, Alexander C. Hamberpotte, S. W. and R. A. Green--famed brother battery that burned up the league last year--and perennial player-coach Bumbling S. Gotnocuts are sure to see action...
...Knee. The luncheon-held in a high-ceilinged Senate committee room complete with crystal chandelier, potted palms and outrageous painted cherubs-soon resembled a subway rush. A bar did a roaring business at one end of the room. A jostling throng of Senators, Cabinet officers, Congressmen and newsmen juggled drinks and loaded plates as the President sat eating, napkin on knee, on a chair against the wall...
...talking for some time about buying a bank-and it made good financial sense. The welfare fund was likely to soar to $100 million and the union could make more money by putting it out in bank loans than by drawing interest on it as a deposit. But when newsmen asked Lewis if he was now a banker, all they got was a faraway look and a curt: "No comment...
...marbled corridor off the pressroom one morning last week, newsmen surrounded blocky Frank Gordon, the assistant U.S. attorney. For 9½ days in Manhattan's federal court, Witness Louis Budenz, the backslid Red, had made out the case against eleven top U.S. Communists charged with conspiring to advocate forcible overthrow of the U.S. Government. Now, the reporters asked, who would the prosecution's next witness...