Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranging hopes-and a mood of crossed fingers. From the two dozen members of the President's official family and staff, ranged around the big hexagonal table in the White House's Cabinet room, Vice President Nixon got a rare burst of applause for his hour-long report on his fortnight behind the Iron Curtain. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, back from Geneva and scheduled to take off this week for a meeting of the American republics' foreign ministers in Santiago, Chile, reported on the Big Four foreign ministers' conference on Berlin, which ended...
...years of pounding by the McClellan committee, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' President James Riddle Hoffa held hardest to his No. 1 point: Hoffa is an innocent victim whose only crime is that he gets good wages and working conditions for his "boys." Last week, in a special report to the Senate, the McClellan committee took dead aim on Hoffa's benevolence to the boys. Said the committee: "In the history of this country it would be hard to find a labor leader who has so shamelessly abused his members or his trust." Among 21 counts of "improper...
Summed up the report: "The committee is convinced that if Hoffa remains unchecked he will successfully destroy the decent labor movement...
Such backbiting has been going on since 1954. when Reporters Franken and Grove, both members of the American Newspaper Guild, a C.I.O. affiliate, offered their services-at $5 a week-as undercover editors of the C.I.O. News. The column "Checking the Press" had been introduced in 1950 with the News's hope that it would "succeed in forcing the daily papers to report the news that they now suppress...
Last week Tidewater confirmed that merger studies are so far along that it has sent a lengthy report to the Justice Department, expects a merger may well come off before 1960. Bubbled Oilman Getty in London: "A Tidewater-Skelly merger is a natural." Tidewater, which last week reported first-half earnings up from $279,000 last year to $18.6 million this year, is primarily an importer and refiner, must buy half the oil it refines. Skelly, its first-half earnings up from $10.5 million to $14.5 million, produces about 40% more oil than it refines. Tidewater's refineries...