Word: krock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thunder follows lightning, so grumbling follows the annual award of the Pulitzer Prizes. This year's controversy centred around the placid, bespectacled head of Arthur Krock, chief of the New York Times Washington bureau, whose exclusive, authorized interview with President Roosevelt in February 1937-the only one given in five years-won him the $500 prize for distinguished Washington correspondence...
...most distinguished Washington Correspondence of the year New York Timesman Arthur Krock won his second Pulitzer Prize, $500. This one was for an exclusive interview in which President Roosevelt discussed his political philosophy...
Wrote Columnist Arthur Krock in the New York Times...
Garner theory according to Mr. Krock was that the cattle-i.e., American people -had plenty of grass but that the "stock is being chivied around" so much by "the Administration's cowboys" that it has grown not only thin but nervous. Concluded Mr. Krock: "Having had this pointed out to him in trenchant Panhandle trope . . . Mr. Roosevelt may begin to believe and apply the blunt Texas counsel." This week it was reported that blunt Texas counsel had turned thumbs down on further deficit spending, that Mr. Roosevelt might take the issue to the microphone...
Best guess as to what had upset Senator Johnson's newly acquired composure was an observation anent Captain Ingersoll's trip by New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock to the effect that he was "expertly informed that, should it at any time serve the interests of the two great democracies, their Navies would automatically complement each other in the Pacific." Added Columnist Krock: "This is the kind of understanding that is hardly more than a wink or a nod, the sort of thing not Mr. Johnson or anyone else can extract from men's inner minds...