Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newsmen whipped themselves up into a froth of excitement when it was announced that Secretary of Defense James Forrestal would arrive. The day before, in Washington, Forrestal had announced that he was sending 1,250 marines from Guam to Tsingtao to reinforce 4,850 marines already in China and help in the evacuation of Americans. For the moment it looked as if something might be cooking on U.S. policy in the Far East...
...Booster. Delegates and newsmen who had never seen Dave Beck before were a little startled, not only by his mild and self-effacing performance, but by his personal appearance. His quiet, expensive clothes, his full-toothed smile, his bland face, his high-pitched, almost boyish voice, gave him the aura of a super-Rotarian booster right out of Main Street. But his eyes-cold, blue and direct-explained him more fully...
There was also little question but that a grateful Administration would look on labor's new demands with a kindly eye. Leaving the A.F.L. convention in Cincinnati, Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin reminded newsmen that wages of some 16 million workers were now trailing 9% behind the Bureau of Labor Statistics' figures on the cost of living. Labor, he implied, could count on his help to close...
John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, back on his feet ("I had the gout for two weeks after Harry Truman was here"), and spry on his 80th birthday, issued a prickly statement to persistent newsmen for the occasion: "I'm in favor of every man reaching his own conclusions and his own confusions . . . There have been too many statements by too many people...
...Nazi German talent on the market. Some of the Zeitung's specialists make $750 a month. The paper can afford to pay well. It pays neither rent nor taxes, accepts no ads, and rakes in (along with its sister periodicals) $5,000,000 a year. But few U.S. newsmen, accustomed to the hustle of city rooms, would feel at home in the Zeitung. Every staffer above the rank of cub has his own office, where he dictates stories and headlines to his secretary. Editor Jack Fleischer, able predecessor of Ken Foss, tried to introduce U.S. methods to the Zeitung...