Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporters of the U.S. and foreign press began gathering sleepily at the State Department. They were handed a little five-page booklet; the text of the North Atlantic Treaty was top secret no longer. The newsmen had two hours to get their questions ready. On the dot of 9 a.m., Secretary of State Acheson, the man who had the answers, faced the reporters...
Time for the Undertaker. It was at this juncture that the Republicans took over. Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry, nicknamed by newsmen "The Merry Mortician," had been getting support for a "compromise," which was not a compromise at all but a hard peace imposed by the victors. He had rounded up 18 Southerners, 22 Republicans and twelve "non-confederate" Democrats, mostly from the border states. Thus reinforced, with full control of the Senate, Wherry went on the floor, whooped through his "compromise" resolution to end the filibuster by a 6340-23 vote...
...Facing newsmen at an open-air press conference in Key West, suntanned Harry Truman seemed as cool and casual as his floppy blue slack suit. For the time being, at least, the President just wanted to forgive and forget...
...likes plenty of publicity for his 16 Broadway playhouses, was still being shy about his private life. It took a Reno divorce last September to disclose the fact that he had been married for twelve years to former Actress Marcella Swanson, some 30 years his junior. When newsmen learned last week that Shubert had remarried Marcella in February, again in secret, he informed a reporter: "I have no objection to your printing that it is an authentic rumor...
Emperor Hirohito thought that his country's defeat, all in all, had not been such a bad thing. He assured newsmen that the war's results had led to better understanding between Japan...