Word: newsweekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hence it was not a complete surprise to William Polk when he learned, as he describes it, that Ernest K. Lindley, head of Newsweek's Washington Bureau, had suggested to newsmen that Polk not be permitted to go to Greece...
...first real trouble arose in Washington. Polk resigned from Newsweek in 1947, charging that since the Astors had taken over the magazine, it had deliberately distorted and biased the news in an effort to stir up anti-Communist and anti-labor feeling among its readers. In a letter to the foreign editor of the magazine, he declared that he could no longer, in clear conscience, continue to work for a publication that, in his viewpoint, presented its readers with "a carefully selected line of propaganda written to achieve a certain desired effect," while pretending to present them with news...
Others who backed the winner were Allison Danzig, New York Times; Dave Egan, Boston Record; John Lardner, Newsweek; Vern Miller, Boston Globe; Arthur Sampson, Boston Herald; Arthur Siegel, Boston Traveler; and Frank Waldman, Christian Science Monitor...
...Election-eve survey in Newsweek: "Dewey-375 to 390 electoral votes, Truman-100 to 125 electoral votes ... a Republican Senate ... a G.O.P. House...
Many other faces were red. The Crossley poll's Archibald M. Crossley had given a final prediction of Dewey's election by 51% (to Truman's 42%). Fifty Washington correspondents, most of them bureau chiefs, had unanimously predicted a Dewey victory in a Newsweek poll. On election night the Chicago Tribune headlined: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. In a pre-election photograph, LIFE had unreservedly captioned Dewey "The next President." TIME was just as wrong as everybody else...