Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tones of Authority. On the surface, it was a lazy week, and the 30-odd newsmen assigned to the President sat around fidgeting over the lack of any spot news. In what was intended as a broad hint of their impatience, they staged a mock welcome for Press Secretary Charles Ross and Personal Secretary Matthew Connelly, who arrived to spend a few days with the boss. Sheets, shorts, undershirts and pants were strung across a street on the Navy's Key West submarine base. The Negro girls of Douglass High School, dressed in gym suits, and Walter...
...much coming & going. Vice President-elect Alben Barkley departed after spending almost a week. No President and Vice President, said Harry Truman, ever understood each other so perfectly. Mon C. Wallgren, an old crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
Hence it was not a complete surprise to William Polk when he learned, as he describes it, that Ernest K. Lindley, head of Newsweek's Washington Bureau, had suggested to newsmen that Polk not be permitted to go to Greece...
...political aims in mind in wanting to go to Greece, and was interested in tracking down his brother's murderers, whoever they might be, in order to prevent other reporters from being intimidated by the threat of personal violence. He felt that since his brother's murder, most American newsmen in Greece have ceased to report news that any political faction might dislike, for fear that their sources, or they themselves, might be killed in retaliation...
...Polk had to find a sounding board. He chose the Progressive Party and Henry Wallace, a choice which today he admits was his "worst mistake." As a result, Wallace got up at his now famous press conference during the Progressive Party's Philadelphia convention and implied to the assembled newsmen that they should be ashamed of themselves for not risking their necks to get news as George Polk had done. Hence instead of getting across the point William Polk had wanted emphasized, that Lindley's action was, he believed, motivated by George Polk's relationship with Newsweek, Wallace instead only...