Word: krock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Truces between the New Deal and the public utility industry have been about as frequent and as transient as European war scares. But last week came a truce which really seemed to amount to something. Columnist Arthur Krock enthused...
Continuing its raid into the ranks of the front page news headlines, the Business School Alumni Association last night announced that Arthur Krock, Washington correspondent of the New Times, and Edwin S. Smith '15, of the National Labor Relations Board, have agreed to address its annual meeting on Friday and Saturday of next week...
...feathered by an exclusive interview with President Roosevelt in February, Krock won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in his field. Washington writer since 1909, he is regarded as an especially well-qualified interpreter of latest national developments...
White House correspondents work on the understanding that the President plays no favorites, grants no exclusive interviews. Krock's colleagues, good and sore, promptly obtained from Press Secretary Stephen Early a promise that this kind of thing would never happen again. Many newshawks felt the interview appearing during the fight on the Supreme Court Bill had been planted. Last fortnight. Earl Godwin, Washington Times reporter and president of the White House Correspondents' Association, carried the controversy to Dean Carl Ackerman of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where Pulitzer possibilities are sifted: "If, as some say, this story...
Best-informed Washington opinion last week was: That the interview was Correspondent Krock's own idea, that it was originally intended as a background Sunday story in which the President would recapitulate his views; that Mr. Krock was closeted with the President for an hour-and-a-half in the White House oval study; that the entire interview was then submitted to the President, who suggested new insertions and approved its use as a news story-even approved the headlines. But all Mr. Krock would say was: "No comment...