Word: krock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haugen bill, but Calvin Coolidge twice vetoed it; Henry Wallace bought the farmer and got away with it. Secretary Brannan's program was an even higher bid for the U.S. farmer's favor than any Henry had thought up. Said the New York Times's Arthur Krock: ". . . no more wondrous pill was ever compounded in the pharmacy of politics." The National Farmers Union, itself an expert concocter of pills, thought the Brannan plan was really wonderful, hailed it as a "milestone." The powerful American Farm Bureau Federation thought it sounded pretty revolutionary...
Reviewing the show, the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock detected strong signs of "Mr. Truman's expanding self-assurance." The President's recent speeches, and his bearing, thought Krock, proclaimed some new beliefs on Harry Truman's part...
...interest which the profession has in the fellowships. Publishers like Arthur Sulzberger, Joseph Pulitzer, Mrs. Helen Reid, Marshall Field, John and Gardner Cowles have all come to Cambridge. John Dos Passos, Bernard DeVoto, and Lewis Mumford have represented authors; working correspondents like William Shirer, John Gunther, Arthur Krock, and Vincent Sheean keep the vacationing newsmen up to date...
...such exceptions were few. Shocked and shaken, Pundit Arthur Krock of the New York Times confessed the press's sins of omission: "We didn't concern ourselves, as we used to, with the facts. We accepted the polls, unconsciously. I used to go to Chicago and around the country, every election, to see for myself. This time, I was so sure, I made no personal investigation . . . We have to go back to work on the old and classic lines-to the days when reporters really dug in, without any preconception...
...that happens, where will Wallace be? He could openly and honestly withdraw his candidacy, as predicted by the New York Times's Arthur Krock. But he has not been a man distinguished for moral courage. In 1934, when his Agriculture Department was purged of a group of leftists, he made a brief protest and then sat silently by. Some of the victims were his close associates.When he made charges unsubstantiated by fact against the atomic-energy policy of Bernard Baruch, he first promised Baruch a retraction, then vanished ignominiously. In crises he is apt to be simply in absentia...