Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Engineer Tindle, asked by newsmen to comment on Dewey's remark, observed mildly: "I think as much of Dewey as I did before and that's not very much...
...hours, the grave bulletins from Lord Moran had Canada on edge. "Mr. Mackenzie King's health," said one, "has suffered from the long strain of affairs." Another reported that Mr. King's blood circulation was "causing concern." Tension ended when newsmen got more facts. Mr. King had been ordered to stay in bed for a rest for three or four weeks. But he was sitting up for visitors, discussing conference details with members of the Canadian delegation and getting his acting prime minister, Louis St. Laurent, to come over and sit in at Downing Street...
...newsmen scanned the executive order on reserve units of the armed forces. When they got to the phrase "proceed without delay ... to organize ... all reserve components," they rushed to their typewriters. At first glance, it looked like an urgent mobilization...
Beefs & Boredom. The Truman special, the newsmen generally agreed, was badly run. Texts of the nightly speeches were handed out at the last minute. Moreover, in spite of all the rushing, the news was so thin that some of the 41 newsmen aboard had been told by their offices to keep it brief. The total daily file off the train was down to 75,000 words, only half the "copy drop" from Tom Dewey's train. Between stops, the reporters never visited Mr. Truman in his armored car, the Ferdinand Magellan. He had not wandered up their way since...
...press conference in Salonika, timed to coincide with Secretary Marshall's visit to Greece (see INTERNATIONAL), Minister of Justice George Melas told 200 newsmen that the case was practically solved; three men and a woman had been charged with conspiracy...