Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three committees of U.S. newsmen are trying to solve the murder. None is fully convinced, as the U.S. State Department seems to be, that Greek Communists killed Polk. One committee, headed by Columnist Walter Lippmann and Washington Post Publisher Eugene Meyer, hopes to raise $50,000 to keep the investigation going...
...when General William Booth was on a tour abroad, his eldest son, Chief of Staff Bramwell Booth, ordered a general shuffling of Commissioners. In what has been called a game of musical chairs, he recalled his younger brother, Commissioner Ballington Booth, from his post in the U.S. In protest Ballington and his wife resigned and began to set up a rival organization called Volunteers of America. Evangeline was rushed to New York to talk him out of it, but Ballington was adamant. When he called a meeting, of New York Army members to try to convert them to his Volunteers...
Overhead, Ruth Nichols. Sadder and bitterer for Evangeline was her rift with Bramwell Booth, who succeeded his father as General of the Army. When in 1922 it was announced in the press that he had ordered Evangeline to leave her phenomenally successful post as Commander in the U.S., a group of potent U.S. supporters of the Army sent a turkey-talking cable to the international headquarters in England. Bramwell was forced to retreat, and Evangeline stayed in the U.S. But General Bramwell was still a problem...
...Roberts took intelligence reports from his Kansas City Star staff then retired to Suite 1206 at the Bellevue-Stratford to dictate his own stories. On the fringes were a few on-the-fringe journalists. Columnist Earl Wilson, Debutante Virginia Leigh and Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas (reporting for the Denver Post...
...Among others on Johnson's list: the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Louisville Courier-Journal...