Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper last week printed the following story about Franklin Roosevelt. In 1937 the President was so impressed by a cinema short on the late Kamal Ataturk's new Turkey that he dashed off a glowing letter to Kamal Ataturk, noted in passing that he hoped to meet him some day. Astounded Ataturk took this passing note very seriously, had his press print the praises of "revolutionary" Franklin Roosevelt, instructed his minister in Washington to ask the mystified State Department just when the President of the U. S. would arrive...
...cannot say," reflected Mr. Clapper at the end of his story, "that it adds anything of historic importance . . . but with me it lingers fondly among the trivia of swirling times, with the poignant fragrance of happier days...
Quoting that line without naming its author, Scripps-Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper sizzled: "I think it is very much to the point to be thinking of our skins-at least to be thinking of those American families whose sons would have to risk their skins." Into the Congressional Record went the Clapper column, six pages after Franklin Roosevelt...
...list of dinner speakers for the first half year has already been drawn up by Mr. Lyons. Included in the list are: Joseph Pulitzer, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Raymond Clapper, Washington commentator; Mark Ethridge, general manager, Louisville Courier Journal; Arthur Sulzberger, publisher, New York Times; Arthur Krock, Washington correspondent, New York Times; Lucien Price, editorial writer, Boston Globe; and Harry W. Frantz, chief of foreign correspondents of the United Press, Washington. According to present plans the dinners will be held at the Signet Society clubhouse on Dunster Street and be open only to the Nieman Follows...
...Pure-hearted Frank Murphy announced: "I personally don't want to be on a ticket of any kind." Opined Columnist Raymond Clapper, who has excellent Administration sources: ". . . The Attorney General is running too hard for the Vice Presidency . . . [There is a] hint in certain quarters . . . that [he] forget the ballyhoo and buckle down to work...