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...could be taken, it was proven also that the cost would be so terrible as to make it actually impracticable because the attacking nation would be left crippled. It was demonstrated again, also, that the battleship remains the Gibraltar of naval warfare." What Exercise M demonstrated, neither the United Pressman nor any other civilian will ever precisely know. To prove the Panama Canal vulnerable or invulnerable or the battleship a Gibraltar or not, was certainly not the purpose of the Office of Naval Operations, which set the problem. The Navy's tactical and strategic exercises, staged almost monthly...
...floor of the House during consideration of that measure to prompt its "sponsors" in debate. Not until his presence seemed likely to cause a Republican stir did he retire. Besides Cohen, there are others like him: Dr. Jacob Viner (Treasury Department), Norman Meyers (Interior Department), Abe Fortas and Lee Pressman...
...last week whether the new agreement was really a settlement of the old controversy or only one more excuse to keep it alive. The squabble between newspapers and radio began in earnest last summer when Columbia started its own news-gathering bureau. In two months Paul White, onetime United Pressman, had organized a staff of 600 correspondents. Columbia's News Service was successful but NBC, whose President Aylesworth is a bosom crony of A. P.'s Kent Cooper, had not had time to project a similar bureau before newspapers began strenuously objecting to Columbia's. Radio...
...Hearstpapers scooped the entire English language Press with an interview obtained by Russian-speaking Yale Professor Jerome Davis from Stalin who had previously been interviewed only by a German and a Japanese. Walter Duranty, who had then been six years in Moscow, waited four more years until United Pressman Eugene Lyons made adroit use of world reports of Stalin's death to wangle his way into the Dictator's presence and get an interview over the head of the Soviet Foreign Office. A few days later the flustered Foreign Office at last showed patient Walter Duranty into...
...right leg cocked over his left knee and his right trouser leg hiked up almost to his knee. Asked if he enjoyed his first night in the White House, he replied: "Off the record, I haven't got much sleep since I've been here." Associated Pressman Francis Stephenson: "On the record I can say, we haven't either...