Word: reston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times Correspondent James B. Reston reported this week that there was a sudden realization in high Washington quarters that a political ERP might be as necessary as an economic recovery program-that, in fact, it should perhaps have been laid down long...
Public creation of the "Little Comintern" widened the split at the United Nations, where the Russian bloc has lately abandoned all pretense of cooperation. The New York Times's James Reston remarked: "Probably never in the history of international gatherings has the simple, demonstrable untruth been put forward so often with such force and passion...
When he hung up, Reston turned dejectedly to Arthur Krock, head of the Times's Washington bureau. "You'd better kill your column," he said. "And I'd better kill my story." Both had been writing on the assumption that Reston was right, that Byrnes was out, and Marshall...
...Reston had put up a better bluff than he knew. When Pundit Krock called Byrnes to try his own luck, the Secretary would not speak to him. ("I just didn't want to lie to him," Byrnes said later.) At that point Jimmy Byrnes called the White House, told the President that, since the Times evidently had the story (and a few others were getting warm, too), it might as well be released. Less than an hour later the story...
...Times, where some newsmen are inclined to sit back on their big, fat prestige (knowing that their paper is the best place for important people to plant important news), Reston remains an unusual reporter. A cocky, calculating Clydebank boy who came to the U.S. at ten, he went to the University of Illinois, was a pressagent for the Cincinnati Reds, joined A.P. as a sportswriter in 1934. The Times hired him in London seven years ago. His persistent legwork and savvy worked as well with the State Department as with the Foreign Office: two years ago they...