Word: publicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Change. It would be hard to imagine a greater contrast between two men. When big, bald Louis Johnson two months ago stepped into James Forrestal's place, control of the nation's second biggest office passed from a wiry, introverted, unpolitical public servant to a 202 lb., hearty, hail-fellow man of action who had been a politician for most of his adult life. By last week the change of command and the change in methods that went with it had sent uneasy rumors and angry charges up & down the 163 miles of corridors in the Pentagon, where...
Inevitably last week, public attention came to rest on the expansive person of Secretary Louis Arthur Johnson, 58, the ex-National Commander of the American Legion, the onetime Assistant Secretary of War, the big operator in and on the fringes of Government, the thriving corporation lawyer who commands fees up to $300,000 a year...
...period when a good many Americans resented the Legion's big-stick and big-talk policy. The 75th Congress, faithfully mirroring the mood of the U.S. public, dug itself in behind a bulwark of neutrality legislation and arms embargoes, and hoped that Europe's troubles would disappear if no one noticed them. The Secretary of War, Harry Woodring of Kansas (a "sincere pacifist," Louis Johnson later called him), felt the same...
...gotten his fill of Washington before (as a specialist in OSS and in a State Department desk job). While other officials of his rank lived in the more convenient Northwest section of the city, he built a home in the Southeast quarter. Around the corner from him was a public school, but it was for white children; Bunche had to send his two daughters to a Negro school nearly three miles away. There were other complications. Item: last March the fashionable Wardman Park Hotel refused a meeting room to the Middle East Institute when it learned that Bunche was scheduled...
Pinpoints & Planning. A harassed, high-strung veteran of 34 years at City Press, "Gersh" starts his $3O-a-week cubs as "ink monkeys" in the back room, running the duplicating machine. Gradually he teams them up with reporters covering police beats, courts, hospitals and public buildings, finally puts them on their own. From Gersh and City Editor Larry Mulay young reporters learn to turn out a story that is fast, straight and complete...