Word: mallon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day the Rules Committee met, prepared to censure the undiscovered "leaky" Senator, subpoenaed Pressman Mallon. By ancient custom and courtesy, though not by rule, one representative at a time of the four great press associations?United, Associated, Universal, International?is allowed the privilege of the Senate floor. Chairman Moses of the Rules Committee, by way of punishment, ordered this privilege for the United Press suspended. Wisconsin's Senator La Follette, eager to press the issue to the maximum discomfort of Republican Conservatives, pointed out that the Senate rules granted no floor privileges to any pressmen. When Senator La Follette...
...Hero Mallon were not without their strong defenders. While the Press Gallery seethed
...with indignation, on the floor Senators La Follette and Johnson took up cudgels for Mallon. Senator La Follette's chief point was that the Rules Committee should question Senators about infractions of the secrecy rules, not newsmen who have taken no oath to obey those rules...
Declared Senator La Follette, after citing other news accounts of executive sessions: "If Mr. Mallon is to be put on the rack and grilled, all newspaper men guilty of publishing executive session news should be broken on the wheel...
This did not mollify the Press Gallery. Behind Newsman Mallon they took their stand, the while jibing him about a possible jail sentence. Born at Mattoon, Ill., a product of the Notre Dame journalism school, he had cub-reported on Louisville papers, joined the United Press in New York in 1919, been shifted to Washington in 1921. With the Senate now on his trail, he became a Public Character. He made a talkie for Pathé Newsreel, into which Pathé edited a shot of an Abraham Lincoln impersonator declaiming the Gettysburg finale...