Word: mallon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the Senate had confirmed Mr. Lenroot by a vote of 42 to 27 was quickly known to every member of the Press Gallery. More enterprising than his colleagues, Newsman Paul Raymond Mallon of the United Press Association set himself to learn the exact line-up of these 69 secret votes. Many a good Senate friend has this (all, quick-stepping, dark-haired news-gatherer of 28. Through him early this year the public learned the secret vote whereby the Senate confirmed Roy Owen West as a Coolidge Secretary of the Interior (TIME, Feb. 4), the publication of which...
...argued as to whether they could keep a secret. For, early in the week, some Senator had let out a great Senatorial secret. So far out had the secret got, that it was published in all newspapers served by the United Press. The press hero was United Pressman Paul Mallon, who trained in the Notre Dame journalistic tradition, would never reveal a secret he was not entitled to divulge...
Somehow Pressman Mallon had secured a complete list of the Senators as they had voted in secret session for or against the appointment of Roy O. West to the dynamite-loaded job of Secretary of the Interior...
...next day appeared Paul Mallon's despatch, naming by name the 54 Senators who voted for Mr. West and the little band of only 27 who voted against. The Senate was scandalized. Vice President elect Curtis, Senate housekeeper that he is, investigated all the servants (clerks, etc.) and pronounced that none of them had given away the secret. Only one alter native: some Senator had "snitched...
...vote also revealed ? which was no great secret ? that the squad of anti-power-trust Republicans is eleven: Elaine, Borah, Brookhart, Couzens, Frazier, Johnson, MacMaster, Norbeck, Norris, Nye, Pine. From one of these it was thought that Paul Mallon had secured his scoop. Such a one as the boyish Nye who is regular at election time and irregular in between would be glad to have the country know that he, in contradistinction to the majority, is nobly bottling "the interests." But any of the Progressives might have done it and Pressman Mallon is specially good-friends with Progressives...