Word: mallon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mallon: . . . You pointed out something you think is wrong, and maybe it is, but what is there about it that isn't free? Ickes: ... I don't think a press is free that represents one economic group...
...Mallon: If you don't think it is free now, how would you go about making it more free...
Presently a door flew open: in marched Mr. Ickes. With a vague "Good morning," he plumped himself into a chair at the table's end, folded his arms, waited for questions. While other reporters sat stiff and silent, up spoke a grey-haired little newswoman: Winifred Mallon, veteran Washington correspondent who has worked for the New York Times eleven years, proudly carries in her handbag the press card which admitted her to the War Department during World War I. Said she: since the press had already made an appeal for unity, did not Mr. Ickes want to "temper...
...that was "very admirable," but he doubted whether all papers were working for unity. He said there was a paper (name not given) which had taken its stand behind the President in an editorial on page 1, inside had printed a columnist's attack on the President. Miss Mallon reminded him that a columnist's opinions were his own, not the publisher's. That, said Mr. Ickes, was the bunk...
...Mallon: There is ... a difference of opinion as to what is sewage...