Word: transcript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently Cairo's crusading newspaper Akhbar el Yom printed a transcript of tapped phone talks that showed how she operated. The time of the talks: a few days after the Naguib coup. Zeezee, then in Switzerland, called Serag el Din in Cairo and ordered him to maneuver a chosen candidate into the Regency Council which Naguib was setting up. "Hader" (At your service), said Serag el Din. Then she called her husband, repeated her instructions. "At your order," replied Nahas meekly. As an afterthought, she told him to send her some more Swiss francs because she had already spent...
Brennan knew how to get around that. He hustled off to Washington, came back with the full transcript of Gilbert's secret testimony, but kept mum on how he got it. Next day the Sun-Times splashed the testimony all over the paper. Gilbert had told the committee that he had made his money while a cop because he "bet on elections . . . bet on football games . . . bet on prizefights . . . [and in fact] I have been a gambler at heart." The Kefauver Committee complained bitterly about the printing of the testimony, but the Sun-Times replied that it had published...
...Hiss Case. As Nixon later recalled it, almost all the committee members believed Hiss when he denied Chambers' charges, and the case was almost dropped then & there. Explains Nixon: "I was impressed by Hiss's testimony. But then that night, when I was reading the transcript as a lawyer, I became convinced that he was hiding something. Everything he said was too smooth, too carefully qualified...
...years he had saved $150, bought a half-interest in a nearby daily, and prospered. He decided that he needed more education, and sold out his share for $5,500 to pay his way through Harvard College and Law School. On the side he wrote for the Boston Transcript. He had such a passion for accuracy that, before writing an article on the vanishing buffalo, he spent three months finding out exactly how many buffalo then survived (his finding...
...Sunday column: "There was one phase of Ike's homecoming that, to my mind, was terribly under-reported . . . That was his first public appearance in Abilene . . . dedicating the Eisenhower Memorial Foundation . . . This speech hit me so hard that I tried all afternoon to get a transcript of it ... Some of America's best-known newspapermen didn't even bother to cover the event . . . I think they missed out on a whale of a human document...