Word: mallon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul Mallon (16 Hearst papers and others) consistently reflects the Hearst view. He is "currently engaged by postwar planning at home and abroad. He thinks it stinks. He envisions nothing better than a world of roaring red Communism overseas. . . . He has a remarkable native instinct for fearing that he and his fellows are being jobbed. . . . His protests [are] bolstered by anecdote, rumor and unqualified statements based on what some people think might be going...
Since correspondents' first enthusiasms for Franklin Roosevelt have cooled they realize "how slight is their foothold, how easy it would be, in times of genuine crisis. to ... reduce their freedom to the slender confines of the Constitutional verbiage." When President Roosevelt last year barred Correspondent Paul Mallon from White House press conferences, only one to speak out was the Times's Charles Kurd. Moral is, thinks Clark, that Washington correspondents need an ethical organization like the American Medical Association...
...Mallon: Mr. Secretary, the constituency of a newspaper can take the power of any newspaper away by refusing...
Present at this exchange was Hearst's veteran Washington columnist, Paul Mallon (no kin to little Miss Winifred). He had had some trouble getting in: a secret-service man barred his way. White House Secretary Marvin Mclntyre admitted him, told him to stay behind when the conference ended. Then, said Newsman Mallon, "a White House Spokesman" told him not to come again-that "because of inaccuracies in his column" he would not be welcome...
...went Reporter Mallon, hopping mad, to give his story to newsmen. The New York Times telephoned the White House, wanted to know what was going on. That evening another White House aide, William Hassett, assistant to Steve Early, called Newsman Mallon, called the Times. Said he: Mr. Mallon had been "misinformed." He was not barred from the White House...