Word: pressman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reported United Pressman George E. Jones for the combined U.S. press: "Even the toughened, battle-hardened [by now] Marines were disgusted with the task of wiping out Japanese troops who hovered on the borderline of insanity as the result of the Allied bombardment." From Roi and Namur the Marines dashed southward, wiping out scattered Japs on other, smaller islands...
...dark beaches, waited for ambushes, hunted for snipers. None was seen. German batteries four miles inland kept their peace. Of the few Germans in sight, four were drunks caught in a staff car, four others were found asleep. The few casualties were caused by mines. Wrote astonished Associated Pressman Don Whitehead: "It was so easy . . . American troops are standing with their mouths open and shaking their heads in utter amazement...
...drag-end of last week's White House press conference, Associated Pressman Douglas B. Cornell asked the question for which all the 80 assembled newsmen, and Franklin Roosevelt, had been waiting. The question: "Mr. President, after our last meeting with you, it appears that someone stayed behind and received word that you no longer liked the term 'New Deal.' Would you care to express any opinion to the rest...
...night last week, in rain hard-driven by an icy wind, a shipfitter, an insurance salesman, a machinist supervisor and a Boston Traveler pressman boarded a 50-ft. cruiser and purred out to patrol Boston Harbor. Their "duty" was the water off the busy Navy Yard. Aboard their cruiser they stood eight-hour watches and took turns at catching a little sleep. In the cold dawn they shucked their blue work clothes, sheepskin coats, stocking caps and went back to their civilian jobs...
...Five correspondents went in at Betio with the first waves of assault battalions. They were United Pressman Richard Johnston, Associated Pressman William Hippie, Don Senick of Fox Movietone News, A.P. Cameraman Frank Filan and I. All saw men killed beside them in landing boats or on the beach. Senick alone suffered injury; a Jap bullet hit a tree under which he was sitting and dropped...