Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Styles Bridges [anti-New Dealing New Hampshire Senator, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, a supporter of the Taft-Hartley Act]. They seemed pleased at the suggestion and they asked, 'Will he take it?' I said, 'He certainly will.' So I got him on the phone at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York...
...benign-faced man with bright blue eyes, protruding underlip and long nose-ducking an answer. The newsmen buzzed after him out the office door. Someone asked if he would accept the job if it were offered. Said Hoffman imperturbably: "The first thing I would do would be to phone my wife in Pasadena. She usually tells me what to do." Then he fled...
Wrong Guesser. In 24 years of reporting, including stints for Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror, "Aunt Geneviève" has hung up a few scoops, and a record array of wrong guesses. Her daily routine includes interviews with diplomats every forenoon, and phone calls to "well-informed friends" in London and Geneva every evening. In her elegant Right Bank apartment, she has three telephone lines and a phone in every room...
Over a month ago, two responsible newsmen called me on the phone from Washington to ask me about an election survey I was reported to have just concluded. They said that they were particularly interested in the heavy following the poll was supposed to show for Henry Wallace...
When Presidential Press Secretary Charlie Ross read about this striped-pants stupidity, he took the clipping in to the boss. He told Harry Truman that he was "damned sick & tired of this guilt by association and pillorying of decent citizens." The President agreed, picked up a phone, and told State to okay Harry Martin. This week, Delegate Martin flies the Atlantic to join the rest of the team...