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In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt called Gruening to the White House, greeted him with a grin, cried (although they had never met) : "Where have you been keeping yourself? I understand you know a lot about Cuba. Tell me what we ought to do."
During his senior year, young Gruening got a temporary job on William Randolph Hearst's Boston American, stayed for a year. To please his father, he took his M.D. degree, but he returned, immediately, to journalism. To the perplexity of his fellow reporters, all of whom thought it would...
After a fight with Boston's notorious Mayor Curley, Gruening was forced to resign as managing editor of the Boston Traveller. Then he edited the failing Boston Journal. Later he went to Manhattan to find out what was the matter with Frank Munsey's New York Sun. His...
In 1914 Gruening took time out to marry Dorothy Elizabeth Smith of Norwood, Mass. Of their three sons one, Ernest, is dead.
After brief service in World War I, Gruening became publisher of New York City's Spanish language daily, La Prensa, developed a deep interest in Latin America. As managing editor of the liberal Nation, he clamored for recognition of Mexico's revolutionary Obregon government, railed against dollar diplomacy...