Word: krock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sitting at a table aboard ship in the Azores or some equally remote anchorage, settling the world's hash personally with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, was drawn in calm, confident words last week on the front page of the New York Times by its Washington correspondent, Arthur Krock. Some time last summer, said Mr. Krock, Mr. Roosevelt asked the Dictators to slip away and meet him at sea, but they declined...
Franklin Roosevelt read this latest Krock "scoop" the same morning that Adolf Hitler replied to his peace message, and he swiftly denied it.* Said he affably: "It is not true, but otherwise it is interesting and well written...
Replied Arthur Krock: "It was related separately and uniformly at different times to this correspondent by men of high repute and clear minds who have the White House entree...
When F. D. R. you want to sock, Page Lippmann, Johnson, Kent or Krock...
...Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous comment that he will direct at a straw man." Boake Carter "could enter any intellectual goldfish swallowing contest." Arthur Krock "sometimes permits himself, without abating a whit of his stately authoritativeness, to 'hit too closely to the belt." Heywood Broun "is a genial philosopher who declines to take himself too seriously." Raymond Clapper "is one of the fairest, most objective and most intelligent of them...