Word: grattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Realist. In Oklahoma City, veteran Bootlegger Thomas Eugene ("Red") Grattan, haled into court on eight separate liquor possession charges, declared: "I'm through, boys. I'm going to work for the Government . . . There's more money in that...
...dikes to a flood of other "Government propagandists" (TIME, Feb. 27). But friends of the Voice pointed out that either its reporters needed seats to cover the news, or the U.S. didn't need the Voice. Last week a compromise was worked out : Voice Reporters Joseph Sitrick and Grattan McGroarty were admitted to the periodicals (magazine) galleries on an unofficial basis...
Larry Todd, Washington correspondent of the official Soviet news agency Tass, and Rob Hall, Washington correspondent of the Communist New York Daily Worker, may sit in the Senate and House press galleries, take all the notes they want. But as "Government propagandists," Joseph Sitrick and Grattan McGroarty, who cover Congress for the State Department's Voice of America, may not. If they can find seats, they may sit in the public galleries, but like other spectators, may not take notes. In reporting debates they must rely on their memories, or wait for the next day's Congressional Record...