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Then came the first news, only an appetizer. At the far end of the hall a New York Times office boy came to the door, handed a torn-off news-ticker scrap to a Secret Service guard. The guard delivered the scrap to Times Bureau Chief Arthur Krock. Pundit Krock glanced at it, reached the scrap up to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who adjusted his pince-nez, read that Soviet Russia and Yugoslavia signed a non-aggression pact. Impassively he handed the news to Franklin Roosevelt...
...dinner went on. The President made a 15-minute off-the-record speech, not a funny speech. While he was speaking, another message reached Mr. Krock. When the President had finished speaking, it was handed to him. Soon the President rose and left for the White House...
Schechter once arranged to have Pulitzer Prizewinner Arthur Krock broadcast from the men's room of a hotel. He is frank in describing his troubles with the round-the-world flight of Howard Hughes, which started out as an NBC exclusive, wound up as a field day for CBS and Mutual, which persistently got the jump on Schechter and his crew. He rates as the bluntest broadcast he ever heard James Roosevelt's defense of his business activities in reply to an attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being...
...President had said that "only the people themselves can draft a President." Now, unlike Cincinnatus, he was leaving his plow and going out to look for some Roman messengers. Even Roosevelt-hating Arthur Krock, New York Times columnist, gave the President's decision to campaign backhanded praise (he likened him not to Cincinnatus but to Coriolanus, the patrician who despised the plebeian voters but went through the form of asking for their votes, because he wanted the office of Consul), even admitted that the decision was "of great value to democracy." Candidate Willkie seemed delighted and excited. The general...
Adding up the signs and portents of a New Deal drive on the press, Columnist Arthur Krock wrote in the New York Times: "New Deal critics of the press in Washington . . . dream of a nation...