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...thunder follows lightning, so grumbling follows the annual award of the Pulitzer Prizes. This year's controversy centred around the placid, bespectacled head of Arthur Krock, chief of the New York Times Washington bureau, whose exclusive, authorized interview with President Roosevelt in February 1937-the only one given in five years-won him the $500 prize for distinguished Washington correspondence...
White House correspondents work on the understanding that the President plays no favorites, grants no exclusive interviews. Krock's colleagues, good and sore, promptly obtained from Press Secretary Stephen Early a promise that this kind of thing would never happen again. Many newshawks felt the interview appearing during the fight on the Supreme Court Bill had been planted. Last fortnight. Earl Godwin, Washington Times reporter and president of the White House Correspondents' Association, carried the controversy to Dean Carl Ackerman of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where Pulitzer possibilities are sifted: "If, as some say, this story...
Best-informed Washington opinion last week was: That the interview was Correspondent Krock's own idea, that it was originally intended as a background Sunday story in which the President would recapitulate his views; that Mr. Krock was closeted with the President for an hour-and-a-half in the White House oval study; that the entire interview was then submitted to the President, who suggested new insertions and approved its use as a news story-even approved the headlines. But all Mr. Krock would say was: "No comment...
...most distinguished Washington Correspondence of the year New York Timesman Arthur Krock won his second Pulitzer Prize, $500. This one was for an exclusive interview in which President Roosevelt discussed his political philosophy...
Garner theory according to Mr. Krock was that the cattle-i.e., American people -had plenty of grass but that the "stock is being chivied around" so much by "the Administration's cowboys" that it has grown not only thin but nervous. Concluded Mr. Krock: "Having had this pointed out to him in trenchant Panhandle trope . . . Mr. Roosevelt may begin to believe and apply the blunt Texas counsel." This week it was reported that blunt Texas counsel had turned thumbs down on further deficit spending, that Mr. Roosevelt might take the issue to the microphone...