Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to Radio Researcher Jean Sulzberger from the copy desk. It had been written from research sent in by our Washington Bureau. Its lead paragraph was three stanzas of a poem (a parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Children's Hour) by the late Stoddard King, newspaperman, versifier and songwriter. Permission to reprint King's verse would have to be obtained from the copyright owner, but that is usually routine. This time it wasn...
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Foreign Minister, told newsmen visiting Moscow the assets a good newspaperman must have: "Strong legs-first to catch the man he wants to interview, and secondly to run away from the man after he has printed...
...under one of its old leaders-dignified, Christian, 59-year-old Komakichi Matsuoka, who has been called the "William Green of Japan" and hates Communists just as much. A more radical group promptly established the N.C.I.U. as a Japanese counterpart of the C.I.O., made a smart but little-known newspaperman named Katsumi Kikunami its chairman. Kikunami (who had a Nisei nephew killed in Italy fighting with the U.S. Army), though no Red himself, accepted Communist support. From this springboard of U.S. patterns, the Japanese jumped into the blue...
Lleras would walk into the Union's white-columned Washington headquarters with a critical eye cocked. Recently, Newspaperman Lleras' Semana (Week) referred to former Director Leo S. Rowe's stewardship of the Union as "26 years of banquets." It stated that Rowe had been "a discreet agent for all North American policies in connection with the continent, whether of aggressive penetration or of good neighborliness." Lleras could be expected to back a more representative position...
...Boston newspaperman from way back, Louis M. Lyons, curator of Harvard's Foundation, released a cool headed analysis last week of Boston's politics its prejudices and its traditions--upon a city whose newspapers were seething with tales of bare-faced bribery and graft. When James S. Coffee stood up before a license hearing in the Council and affirmed, "Sure I'll take a buck," the probe was on. Before it was over, citizens knew that Coffee would take three thousand bucks and that he was not alone. Peculiar to Boston, Lyons points out in Vanguard Press' anthology, "Our Fair...