Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report was kept locked up while State Department officials brooded over it. Last week, Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett said that the report would not be made public. He gave no reason, but Washington newsmen learned that the decision not to publish the report had been made by Secretary of State George Marshall. Marshall, it was said, had not yet fully subscribed to the report's conclusions and recommendations. He believed that publication at this time would only fan the fires of U.S.-Soviet conflict. And he was afraid that publication would jeopardize congressional approval of European...
...stay up talking until 4 in the morning. "He'd never drink himself, but he'd feed us coffee and cognac, talk about fighting ahead or swap the latest filthy stories." Because the campesino's hero, Emiliano Zapata, refused to let Agustín and other newsmen cover his ragged army, and shot up their press train, Agustín sprinted to Vera Cruz to cover the U.S. invasion. Both sides held their fire while he focused under his photographer's black cloth...
Back in Paris, angry Pianist Weill told French newsmen her tale. Said she: "I had reached the middle of the last movement . . . there were no more difficulties ahead and there was nothing that might have provoked any confusion. Suddenly there was a complete blank in my memory.... I would have taken the whole matter for an unpleasant incident, had I not heard a strange explanation from one of the orchestra's musicians. After the end of the concert, this musician went out on the casino terrace for a drink. At the next table he overheard four men exchanging congratulations...
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. might well have imagined himself back in the Secretary of State's office. As newsmen trooped into a press conference with him in a grey-carpeted suite in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza, he was flanked by a three-man Government mission from Liberia. But this time he had a business deal to announce: a $1,000,000 partnership between U.S. financiers and the Negro republic...
After the game Dick Harlow bet the newsmen that Howie Houston, a tremendous tackle all afternoon, lost at least ten pounds during the course of play...