Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman, a good hand with figures, had almost all his arithmetic down cold for his mid-year budget review. To the 35 newsmen who gathered in the White House's steamy little cinema theater one day last week, he confidently rattled off how he expected the 1948 fiscal pie to be cut (see chart). By next June 30, he estimated, there would be a whopping $4.7 billion surplus...
When he came to the surplus, it was the newsmen's turn to poke a hot political question at Harry Truman. What were the chances for tax reduction? The President would not say, right out, that there could be no tax cut. But he strongly implied that any effort to reduce taxes next year would get a heavy going over by him. Treasury Secretary John Snyder, patting his round, little private surplus, nodded approval as the President explained his tax policy: cut the debt by taxing heavily in prosperous times. Added Harry Truman: "The international situation has also made...
...Newsmen were not allowed to see him at the hospital. But he had previously been seized with an odd impulse to get something off his chest to a Negro editor named Leon Lewis. In June, he had summoned Lewis to his side. The man who had preached race hate with a venom seldom exceeded in U.S. history delivered a reluctant and rambling apology to his dark-skinned visitor...
...Washington Merry-Go-Round" five years ago and went to war, Partner Drew Pearson wrote a sentimental prophecy: "I shall miss Bob, but . . . he'll be back handing out brass rings, punching the tickets for rides on the old 'Merry-Go-Round.'" Few Washington newsmen would have bet on it, for the famed team of inside dopesters had been notoriously cold toward each other. When Allen came home in 1945, he was in no hurry to get back to the old stand. For more than six months, he and Pearson did not even meet or speak, though...
Situations Wanted. Despondent Star staffers got the news in a terse bulletin-board message. The stockholders propose to hand out $75,000 in severance pay to some 200 among the 235 employees. The printing forces will be absorbed around town, but few Star newsmen can soundly hope to catch on with the Times or Hearst's morning Post-Intelligencer...