Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polk had expected to leave for Greece during the vacation with Contantine Poulos of the Nation on funds raised by a newsmen's group established to investigate the murder of George Polk, liberal Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent whose body was found in Salonika Bay last...
Polk could give no reason for the last-minute postponement of the trial, but said that the delay might give the newsmen a chance to raise enough additional money to send John Donovan of the National Broadcasting Company, who was a close friend of George Polk, as a third member of the expedition...
...Hope. What would the new cabinet's policy be? Earlier in the week Sun Fo had told foreign newsmen: "Surrender? Absolutely no surrender!" In the next breath he had said: "We have to fight on until we can secure an honorable peace." Now, in his first cabinet session, Sun explained further...
...generations after that, legions of wandering newsmen made the Golden Gate a port of call. Some big names were among them. Rudyard Kipling, says Author Bruce, was "a bad reporter . . . snagging on his careless pen events and scenes that were never there." White-coated Horace Greeley found the climate the "worst on earth." Nevertheless, he went back to New York and urged young men to go west...
Texas' Governor Beauford Jester was so boiling mad he told newsmen, "You can't print what I think." The underwater lands are one of the juiciest holdings of the Texas General Land Office, which uses the proceeds to help finance the state's schools; 1947's royalties from submerged oil drilling were $14,800,000. Just before Tom Clark filed suit, the board had collected $2,055,709 from private drillers for leases on 79,000 underwater acres...