Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greek Government immediately accused the Communists of killing Polk to embarrass the Government. The Communists and many others accused the Government of killing Polk to stop him from reporting facts unfavorable to the Government and to intimidate other newsmen into ceasing their criticism of the Greek Government. And radio commentator Robert S. Allen declared in a mid-summer broadcast that the British Intelligence Service had murdered Polk because the latter was about to receive a Communist offer to make peace with the Government, and the report of such an offer would mean an end to American support of Britain...
...groups were set up to conduct a dis-interested investigation of the killing. The Overseas Writers Association, under Walter Lippmann, sent General William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan, of wartime Office of Strategic Services fame, to Greece to find out who killed Polk. And the Newsmen's Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk, representing about 20,000 working newsmen in the U. S. and Engand, has been raising money to send a team, to include William Polk, to Greece to track down the killers. The former group hoped to bring pressure on the Greek government to make an honest...
...ambition was to retire in ten years' time and spend the rest of his life fishing, Marty replied, "I feel the same way -in fact, I feel like doing it right now." Thorez, still beaming, jingling loose change in his pants pocket, was surrounded by a group of newsmen. "Truman's idea of sending Vinson to Moscow was very smart," he said. "It made a deeper impression on the American people than the political experts thought." 'Everyone laughed and smoked; the room was warm...
Geologists, newsmen and stockbrokers were beating a path last week to the tent flaps of a prospector named Robert Campbell, on the chilly shore of Lake Superior. Seventy miles north of Sault Ste. Marie, he had just staked out Canada's newest uranium discovery. Even cautious officials in Canada's Department of Mines thought that his samples looked like "very high-quality...
Then came some dashes of cold water. A presidential press secretary told newsmen that no such meeting was planned, although the President's invitation to Stalin to come to Washington was still open. And in Paris, Secretary of State George C. Marshall implied that such reports as Coffin's merely played into the hands of Soviet propagandists. The trouble with the tip-like all such tips out of Washington-was that readers could not tell whether it was irresponsible reporting or an irresponsible leak from an administration official. Coffin insisted that he had another call from a "close...