Word: krock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warm Springs, Ga., Washington D.C. seemed more & more like an empty stage, its emptiness spotlighted by the news from Europe. Last week, back at the White House, the President faced newsmen, who arrived full of questions and left nearly empty of answers. The New York Times's Arthur Krock was stirred to an annoyed essay on the House of Commons' success in extracting information from Winston Churchill. But the President, rested and amiable, spoke his small news with a good-humored...
...which are respectively 62 and pretty good (see Presidency). But Dewey could hammer away at Term IV, the prime feature of the Republican case, and the cause of uneasiness in many a Roosevelt voter. He could remind the U.S. that in February 1937 the President had told Pundit Arthur Krock of the New York Times that when 1940 came the U.S. would have a new President; that twice, in 1940, Mr. Roosevelt told the voters that when 1945 came the U.S. would have a new President. The memory of these broken promises echoed again when the President told the Democratic...
...correspondent exerting the greatest influence on Washington: dignified, omniscient Arthur Krock, chief of the New York Times's Washington bureau (51 votes). Second: Drew Pearson...
Both the New York Times's well-informed Arthur Krock and the New York Sun's frankly GOPartisan George Van Slyke insisted last week that the phrase had a solid basis in fact. According to the story, Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan had gone for instructions to the President's private car as it sat on a Chicago siding just before the July convention officially began. The President, closely following the vice-presidential race, had decided to dump both Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace. Worried over the dissension, he allegedly said: "Go on down there and nominate...
Miss Edna's editorials are read and quoted far from Quitman. Sometimes she chooses national topics: "Arthur Krock in the New York Times was lamenting that we had lost the freedom of the press for the duration of the war. He'd better be concerned about what we did with the freedom of the press when we had it." But mostly her thoughts and her words are of Quitman and Brooks County...