Word: newsmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luncheon confusion was not confined to Washington last week. In London, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas addressed the American Chamber of Commerce, got his tongue twisted, referred to Britain as "the workhouse of the world." He meant "workshop," not an institution for paupers. British newsmen, conscious of Britain's workhouse-like austerity regulations, grinned wryly...
From Bastille to Reichstag. Father Roger Rault, curate of La Poterie, near Lamballe, was also accused of complicity in the plot, but was left in provisional liberty. A dozen machine guns were found in his house. When newsmen badgered him for an interview, he pinned a statement to his door: "The police have found in my attic the following: two 35-ton tanks, two batteries of 75-millimeter howitzers ... 35 engines of a type not yet invented, half an atomic bomb...
Harried officials of Agencia Nacional, Brazil's official news agency, replied that the U.S. Army Signal Corps had been asked to set up enough radio transmitters to send all newsmen's copy. The correspondents were not appeased; they sent a petition of protest to President Dutra...
Reached in his office yesterday, Dean Bender told newsmen that the could adopt no official position on the saucer mystery...
...Perkins has done many an odd chore. He has cleaned out elephant skulls and put them on exhibition, and removed the scent glands from skunks. In April, along with two Chicago newsmen, he hunted eels by flashlight in the open sewers of a southern Louisiana town. His wastebasket is the hollowed-out foot of an unmanageable elephant that was shot at the St. Louis...