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Franklin Roosevelt, six years ago the object of grammarians' tuts for his liking for "like" in the wrong places, escaped another tutting by a blue pencil's stroke. Conning ahead of time the text of a minor Roosevelt speech, New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock encountered "like in many cases," quickly phoned a Presidential aide. The President, reached in time, made...
...speech, Winston Churchill promised that Great Britain, which has not had a general election since 1935, would have one a few months after war's end. Observed New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock: "It is precisely because no such prospect can legally be held out in this country by the party in office that much of the 'fighting' is current on the political front in the United States. If the President runs for a Fourth Term next year, and is elected, he and his group will be in executive power for another four years, whether...
...York Times pundit, Arthur Krock, veteran defender of Mr. Hull, was already on record that the best solution would be, in effect, for Mr. Roosevelt to oust Messrs. Welles, Berle and Acheson, and let Cordell Hull run foreign affairs...
...days later, Bureau Chief Krock rushed into print with a fuller explanation. His dispatch, written in the Virginia horse country, began: "Since this correspondent left Washington for a considerable absence. . . ." His own skirts cleared, Columnist Krock resumed the official Times line...
There was confusion in the State Department, he said, but this of course could by no means be attributed to good, grey Secretary Hull. All troubles would vanish, he continued, if only the President would give Mr. Hull his own way. Mr. Krock wanted to make it absolutely clear that he still admired Mr. Hull...