Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precious time had gone by-and the reporters were scrambling to cover the Clarksburg, W.Va. speech. Without warning to the pressmen, the President had stepped off the rear platform to say his piece, and the loudspeakers in the train had not caught a word. To make matters worse, the press services could not get stories of the speech off the train for 45 minutes...
News on the Run. There were few such snafus aboard the campaign specials that roamed the U.S. last week. But even without them, the specials were no gravy trains to the working press. Though both the Dewey and Truman trains carried loudspeakers, the reporters had to hop off for platform speeches if they wanted to size up crowds. And they heard so many speeches that they began to sound like broken records. Stories were written in a hurry, lest they miss the telegraph operator at the station stop. At some points, Western Union stationed runners along the track, to catch...
...night, behind screaming sirens, the press parties were hustled to hotels. They jostled for a chance at a shower bath, grabbed drinks and dinner before covering the evening show. They were earning their money and probably their king-sized expense accounts-although most would have been working just as hard at home. But if the 1948 trains were the last of their kind, to be outmoded in 1952 by television, that would be all right with a good many reporters...
Switches & Whistles. Though many in the 80-man Dewey press corps did not yet really like the candidate, they had to admire his streamlined press relations. The text of each night's speech was Mimeographed by the morning before; coffee and beef sandwiches were at hand in every press workroom along the way. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's motto was "Make it as easy as possible for them to get what they want...
...relieve the boredom, reporters turned to inventing cynical little ditties. The best the Dewey press corps could work up was a feeble jingle about "Unity plus Dewnity." The boys with Truman were more inspired; they hit their peak with a parody of I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover...