Word: clapper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speakers at the Nieman dinners this year have been Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, Archibald MacLeizh, Librarian of Congress; Ralph MacA. Ingorsoll, former general manager of Time, Inc.; Joseph Pulitzer, '06, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Raymond Clapper, Washington commentator...
Ohio's Treasury has a tidy little surplus. A special session might vote to spend the surplus, and more too, in relief bills. "If [Bricker] sits tight now," observed Columnist Raymond Clapper, "he can clean up this year with a surplus of perhaps $5,000,000 and offer himself as an economical administrator who would make short work of extravagance at Washington...
...Clues of the Cornerstones. While ex-Senator McAdoo in California loudly called for the third term, while pro-New Deal Columnist Raymond Clapper warned that the President would not be "playing fair with the American people in perpetuating the uncertainty regarding . . . his intentions," while candidates Democratic and Republican tried to focus attention on the next President, President Roosevelt scattered new clues to confuse political sleuths...
...added the sentence to trap newspapermen into believing that he might seek a third term, that the effect was terrific, about as funny as a crutch, and that he had got a kick out of seeing the faces of the reporters present. Trouble with this, according to Raymond Clapper, was that few reporters had paid much attention, and that certainly few had fallen into the President's trap...
...almost seven years Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been pretty much his own Secretary of the Navy. Last week Columnist Raymond Clapper chided him for being his own Secretary of State. And last week the President himself stepped out in front as his own Secretary of something like Military Economics. At press conference he laid down a new theory: the U. S. ought to have a Pacific coast steel industry. His arguments...