Word: krock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This pronouncement by then-President Harry Truman was tossed off in a tradition-breaching exclusive interview that he gave New York Timesman Arthur Krock during the 1949-50 recession, and it had some cool-eyed economic truth in it. But last week, with the economy in a Republican recession (mid-March unemployment: 5,198,000), politically touchy Harry Truman publicly disowned his rare bit of economic wisdom...
...critical test. During the seven weeks he spent drafting the first address of 1958-probably the most important of his five years in the White House-the President and his works had been under heavy attack, and he knew the nation's temper. (Wrote New York Timesman Arthur Krock the day before the address: "The question is: Can and will he fully and firmly lead the U.S., and hence the free world?") Moving quickly to calm fears and answer questions, the President...
Shocked at Britain's prewar policies, Kennedy went back to Harvard, wrote a thesis that, at the suggestion of New York Timesman Arthur Krock, was expanded into a highly praised book called Why England Slept. Three years later, on the night of Aug. 2, 1943, Lieut. John Kennedy, U.S.N.R., found himself at the wheel of PT109, patrolling Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Came the cry "Ship at 2 o'clock"-and in the next instant a Japanese destroyer knifed through the PT boat, hurling Skipper Kennedy to the deck and injuring his back. Expert Swimmer Kennedy saved...
...Administration. Said Chicago Daily News Publisher John Knight: "While the Vice President is intensely loyal to the Administration, he is to be commended for talking so forthrightly when so many of the President's advisers are mouthing sheer nonsense.'' Wrote New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock: "It is the first orderly formula that a high officer of the Administration has offered." But even that orderly formula would be meaningless until it was translated into action...
...Arthur Krock, longtime New York...