Word: reston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Timesman James Reston, his ears ringing from ten such strident U.S. statements in the past month, reported that they sounded "slightly like a stuck whistle...
Their alarm was not shared by the New York Times's shrewd diplomatic correspondent, James Reston. Wrote Reston: "There are many ways in which a Secretary of State can present a treaty to the Senate but the best way is to tell the Senators everything. This astonishes them, then bores them stiff, and eventually minimizes the ordeal...
...members of the selection committee will be: Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor; James B. Reston, diplomatic correspondent of the New York Times; and John M. Clark, publisher of the Claremont (New Hampshire) Daily Eagle. Present members of the committee are: Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, chairman; David W. Bailey '21, Secretary to the Corporation and to the Board of Overseers; and Pinkerton...
...Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi); Marquis W. Childs, Washington columnist; Mark Ethridge, publisher of the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal; Phillip L. Graham, publisher of the Washington Post; Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Denver Post; Benjamin M. McKelway, editor of the Washington Star; Robert McLean, publisher of the Philadelphia Bulletin; Reston; and Paul Smith, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle...
...enough variant factors to cloud any inherently clear meaning for the press. Most reputable middle-of-the-road journalists nevertheless agree that, while the Truman victory doesn't admit to pat analysis, the basic reportorial error, attributable to whatever primary cause, is quite uncomplicated in its implications. Correspondent James Reston wrote to his own New York Times the morning after that "we were wrong, not only on the election, but, what's worse, on the whole political direction of our time." Richard Lee Strout of the Christian Science Monitor's Washington staff commented that in past New Deal elections there...