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Word: newsmens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last night of his slam-bang Wisconsin campaign, Candidate Harold Stassen gave a little dinner party at La Crosse for the newsmen who had accompanied his final drive. Then he drove back across the Minnesota line to his home in St. Paul. Next morning he slept late, napped in the afternoon, played a game of chess with his son Glen. After a quiet family supper he flipped on the radio, started listening to broadcast returns and the excited telephone calls from his Wisconsin managers. By 10 o'clock that night Harold Stassen knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wildfire in Wisconsin | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Japan. The President had not yet announced Hoffman's appointment, although every newsman at the conference knew it was in the works. They tried to make Hoffman confirm it. He sat-a benign-faced man with bright blue eyes, protruding underlip and long nose-ducking an answer. The newsmen buzzed after him out the office door. Someone asked if he would accept the job if it were offered. Said Hoffman imperturbably: "The first thing I would do would be to phone my wife in Pasadena. She usually tells me what to do." Then he fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Man in a Hurry | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Republican & Responsible." But three hours later the news was official. Paul Hoffman, now nominated as the boss of ECA, called another press conference. It was a different Hoffman who confronted nearly 100 newsmen, photographers and newsreel men in the Statler Hotel's Congressional Room. His answers were prompt and candid. He was supposed to be a hard-boiled businessman, said a reporter. Would he be hard-boiled with Europe? "The money we put up for European recovery can only stimulate Europe's economy," he said. "It cannot create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Man in a Hurry | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Cross Section of Discontent. Only two newsmen had stuck to Henry's trail throughout his warm-up campaign. They were Howard Norton of the Baltimore Sun, and James Wechsler of the New York Post. They had been quickly shushed at press conferences whenever they tried to challenge Wallace's ideas or facts. Sometimes Wallace hid from them in hotel rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: The Voice of the Locust | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...assured both gentlemen that we had taken no such poll on Wallace. . . . But a few weeks later, the inquiry of the two newsmen had turned into a so-called "inside" story by two Washington correspondents of the People's World, a West Coast version of the Communist Daily Worker. This time, the 11% for Wallace had jumped to 11,000,000 votes (11% of a possible 60,000,000 votes is a little over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: How to Grow a Rumor | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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