Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week a chattering teletype in the Chicago Tribune wire room hammered out a note from its Washington bureau: "The file . . . will be signed TRO." That made oldtimers feel a little older. For 35 years the Washington file had signed off with...
...stood for Arthur Sears Henning, the Trib's softspoken, acid-penned Washington bureau chief. He had been in Washington since 1909 and had seemed as permanent as the Washington Monument. But six years ago, ailing Correspondent Henning had turned over the actual running of the Trib's eleven-man bureau to pudgy, bouncing Walter Trohan, 46. Last week, at 72, Henning turned over the title of bureau chief as well...
Henning joined the Trib in 1899, a cub from Chicago's City News Bureau. After a stint at general assignments and politics, he went to Washington and became bureau chief in 1914. Henning was one of the favored reporters William Howard Taft called in for press conferences around the Cabinet table. There, Taft regaled them with droll stories, "shaking," says Henning, "like a bowl full of jelly." Henning found Woodrow Wilson irascible and short-tempered, and Calvin Coolidge a man who "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...
Spooks & Sneezes. In witty, talkative Walter Trohan, a member of the Washington bureau since 1934, McCormick had a successor who could ably carry on the Tribune's own kind of search for truth. In 1941, Trohan "scooped" the country on the "fact" that British agents, in Washington, were wining & wenching on Lend-Lease money (said Franklin D. Roosevelt: a dirty falsehood...
...puts himself to it; he scooped everyone on President Truman's abortive plan to send Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow. Like Henning, Trohan believes in the infallibility of Colonel McCormick. Says he: "When the Colonel sneezes, the walls reverberate throughout the Tribune Tower, and even here in the bureau. But the Colonel pays for the reverberations...