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...Bill and John and Jim and Ted-all those White House newshawks who are accustomed to having the President jovially hail them by their first names, were shocked at a White House press conference. The President began with the usual banter - about Secretary Steve Early's coat of tan acquired on vacation. Then someone asked him whether he cared to comment on the bill in Congress to regulate utility holding companies...
Captain McGregor (Gary Cooper) is a hardbitten, warm-hearted soldier. Lieut. Forsythe (Franchot Tone) is a flip Oxonian, with good manners and a lionheart. Lieut. Stone (Richard Cromwell) is the tenderfoot son of the stern regimental commander (Sir Guy Standing). The three engage in sport and pleasant banter until a rascally potentate kidnaps young Stone and the other two attempt to rescue him. When the potentate puts lighted bamboo splinters under McGregor's finger nails, he makes a face but tells no secrets. Neither does Forsythe, but flabby Stone despicably reveals the whereabouts of a British ammunition train...
...began his winter's work: conferences with Secretary Hull, Secretary Bern, Vice President Garner, Secretary Wallace, Chester H. Gray of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Next day when 200 newshawks turned up for the first regular press conference, the President was ready for them with his usual banter. To all rumors he announced that his future answer would be SCS ("Sewing Circle Story...
...patrons and patronesses are Dr. and Mrs. Melvin T. Copeland, Professor and Mrs. George F. Doriot, and Dean and Mrs. Edmond Wright. The ushers are William Banter, R. Canon Clements 2B; Robert C. Dunlap 2B, Thomas M. Hayden 2B, Grover L. Higdon 2B, Charles Shaeffer, and Robert E. Stevens 2B. Members of the Executive Board will assist...
With no tattoo of manifestoes did the President resume his charted course. The usual banter was lacking when he held his first official press conference. He spoke forcefully and with a new determination...