Word: pearsons
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Former President Truman, on a filmed television program with Columnist Drew Pearson last week, gave his version of the famed "red herring" crack about congressional spy hunts in 1948. Said Harry Truman: "The facts of the case are that, in a press conference one morning, some young man . . . asked me if the action of the House Un-American Activities Committee was not in the form of a red herring to cover up what the Republican Administration in the 80th Congress had not done, and I said it might...
CLARENCE W. PEARSON Mt. Vernon...
With Canadian newspapers storming against "McCarthyism in Canada," the Canadian government quietly finessed the request. External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson announced that Gouzenko had nothing new to tell, and now said that the Chicago Tribune had misquoted him. The matter might have ended there but for Gouzenko, who is soon to publish his first novel. He stood by his statement that he wanted to talk. With that, the Jenner committee forwarded a second request for an interview...
Secret Rendezvous. Mike Pearson, who was en route to a U.N. session in New York, hurried back to Ottawa as soon as the second U.S. note was received late last week, and called a press conference to repeat that Gouzenko had "nothing more to offer." That same day Gouzenko issued a 350-word sworn statement. Said Gouzenko: "Mr. Pearson was ill-advised . . . I can give advice which . . . would have good chances of bringing exposure of present Soviet spy rings...
...other Republican, John L. Collier, was the candidate of the opposing faction (followers of ex-Governor Earl Warren, now U.S. Chief Justice, and Senator William Knowland). The Democratic candidate was George Arnold, 32-year-old son of Trustbuster Thurman Arnold and a son-in-law of Columnist Drew Pearson...