Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, which counsels the President, took a long look at the falling barometer of commodity prices last week. Newsmen prodded him for a weather report. Was this a crashing cloudburst, or just a heavy shower that might clear away some of the hot air of inflation? Economist Nourse adjusted his pince-nez. This, he said gravely, was a time for "masterly silence...
...Timetable. The news was good enough to impress even hardboiled Capitol newsmen. Vandenberg's logic and persuasion, plus the force of public opinion,* had brought ERP to the point of Senate debate unbruised by its first big test. Chairman Vandenberg deserved the congratulations which the newsmen showered down...
...clamoring press. Bobo said: "I love him very much." She talked about her early life, said that her father was dead (she was misinformed-he was mining coal in Washington, Pa.) and showed reporters her engagement ring, a 1½-carat, square-cut diamond, set in platinum. Winthrop parried newsmen's thrusts with wit and a bridegroom's smile...
...correspondents in Berlin, the invitation was an eye-popper. The Soviet-dominated Bulgarian government, which has shown little liking for U.S. newsmen, politely invited them to cover Premier Georgi Dimitrov's big Fatherland Front Congress in Sofia. The terms sounded too good to be true: there would be no censorship; the correspondents could go where they pleased, stay as long as they liked, and English-speaking Sofia newsmen would serve as interpreters...
Last week the story won Andrews the 1947 Heywood Broun Award ($500) of the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild. To working newsmen, the Broun Award is the next best thing to the Pulitzer Prize...