Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dirty Phrase." In the official press release, the White House stenographer changed "any S.O.B." to "anyone." That was the ineffectual gesture of the week. The original phrase, taken down by newsmen at the dinner, was already clacking over telegraph wires...
...Newsmen sensed a new threat to the Fourth Estate when Detroit's police commissioner said that press cards would be issued only to those...
...Czech newsmen's congress was told that to make the Czechoslovakian press "perfect," all but one of these would be necessary...
During his recent visit to Tokyo, Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall asked some of the newspaper boys to drop by at the U.S. embassy for a drink. Twelve U.S. newsmen came. Burly, bumbling Royall talked, on & off, for an hour. He left the reporters free to use his remarks if they did not attribute them to him. What he had said during that cocktail hour set off a cyclone of alarm and confusion...
Buttles refused to accept two of the twelve resignations; he fired the men instead. Dissatisfied with the way things were going, General Clay stepped in. He ordered Colonel Textor to appoint a three-man board of military government employees, all former U.S. newsmen, to ride herd on the Zeitung and, presumably, Publisher Buttles. Their first step was to "reconsider" the firings and resignations. Indignant at having his judgment questioned, Publisher Buttles quit...