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...since presidential press conferences were put on a regular basis by Woodrow Wilson, reporters have been hampered by some form of restriction preventing them from quoting the President directly. There was good reason for the precaution. It helped protect the President from slips of the tongue that might later embarrass him or the U.S. During the Roosevelt Administration, a standard rule was put into effect that was followed for more than 20 years: newsmen may paraphrase what the President says, but may not quote him directly. Last week the rule was changed. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that...
...seemed almost as glum as Impy when it was all over. The move, they feared, on second thought, might just help Republican Candidate Harold Riegelman instead of damaging the Liberal Party's hornrimmed hoot owl, ex-Kefauver Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley. And the Wagnerites had cause to be embarrassed on another count: after crying that a mysterious, top-level Republican Mr. X had attempted to get Big-Time Racketeer Joey Fay out of prison (a charge calculated to embarrass not only local but state and national Republican administrations as well), they had, at week's end, dismally failed...
...Fast, regretting "that after all the trouble we have put you to, we are compelled to tell you that we cannot present the original forum program as we had planned. As you doubtless understand from the newspapers, putting on such a program at this time would not only embarrass, but hurt, several people connected with the University...
...Fast, regretting "that after all the trouble we have put you to, we are compelled to tell you that we cannot present the original forum program as we had planned. As you doubtless understand from the newspapers, putting on such a program at this time would not only embarrass, but hurt, several people connected with the University...
Elocution & Roses. At the time of the wedding, Ike Culp told his prospective son-in-law: "Will, she's going to embarrass you. She doesn't give a hang about clothes and doesn't dress up the way she should...