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Unimpressed were the President's Civil Service critics with his argument that the fault lay with Congress rather than with the White House, with his implication that he was powerless to get Congress to do his bidding. Wrote Pundit Arthur Krock of the New York Times...
Other men who will attend will be John Dickinson, Assistant Attorney General; Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who will be at the "Banking" table; Arthur Krock, head of the New York Times Washington Office...
...Arthur Krock, able chief of the New York Times's Washington staff, went the $500 award for distinguished Correspondence. A newsman for 29 of his 48 years, bespectacled Arthur Krock first covered Washington for the late great "Marse Henry" Watterson, whose Louisville Courier-Journal he later edited. In 1923 he joined the New York World's distinguished staff of editorial writers, thence to the Times. Four years ago he reluctantly returned to Washington, which he disliked, to succeed the late Richard V. Oulahan as Times chief of staff. Remaining severely on the sidelines, immune to official blandishments, Arthur...
Ably defending Bernard Marines Baruch against attacks from the Long-Coughlin. loudspeakers, Arthur Krock, wise chief of the New York Times' Washington staff, casually dropped a story hitherto untold by biographers of the financier. The story (to correct the Long-Coughlin estimate of Mr. Baruch's "influence" in Wall Street) : He had yearned to own the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, had been thwarted by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Baruch confirmed the story: "As a youngster in South Carolina, I used to sit beside the railroad tracks and throw pebbles after the trains...
Meanwhile it became evident last week that all was not well within the tight little circle of correspondents who cover the White House and report the President, under rules of his own making, to the country. To Manhattan to address the National Republican Club went Correspondent Krock-"Arthur"' to the Presi-dent-of the great New York Times. As befitted the No. i Washington man of an independent Democratic paper, Arthur Krock attempted to present a first-hand nonpartisan picture of White House press relations. Yet before he had done he spoke in a way that may well have...