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...Texas Corp., bearing a copy of a Recovery program drafted by 90 U. S. tycoons (see p. 10). Into the White House he rushed eagerly, expecting to present his document at once to the President. Instead Pat McKenna, Presidential switchman, shunted him in to see Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. The President, said Mr. Mclntyre, just had too many appointments to see Mr. Ames that day. Perhaps Mr. Ames could stay over a day or two? Mr. Ames could not. So he left his program with Secretary Mclntyre...
...conference put it under his arm and started to Washington to offer it and his own right hand to President Roosevelt. But a Right hand can never know for sure when a Left hand will shake and when it will not. At the White House Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre told Mr. Ames that the President was too busy to see him that...
...others to see burly Assistant Secretary Stephen T. Early who handles the Press; still others to the reception room for delegations of little wigs calling on the President; and a chosen few, who are destined to see the President personally and privately, into the office of Assistant Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, who, at the desk of Roosevelt I, holds the hands of politicians and tycoons, puts them in a happy frame of mind...
Marvin Hunter ("Mac") Mclntyre, like most of the White House assistants, is an ex-newshawk. During the War he helped handle Navy press relations, afterwards worked for Roosevelt in the 1920 campaign. Later he mooned around the Navy press room, tried to peddle freelance stories on the plight of the fighting fleet. From Pathe Newsreel Louis Howe got him back for the pre-convention campaign in 1932. A genial fellow whose hollow cheeks and sunken eyes belie his good disposition, Marvin Mclntyre made himself valuable as Franklin Roosevelt's contact, first, with the Press, later with politicians and bigwigs...
Stephen Tyree Early is Franklin Roosevelt's Master of Newshawks. Unlike skinny Mr. Howe and skinny Mr. Mclntyre, he is a big, fat-jowled fellow, of the type that appeals to Postmaster General Farley. His newspaper experience was largely gained as an Associated Pressman in Washington. His business now is to jolly the Press along, see that the "boys" obey the White House rules on quoting and not quoting the President, bark out his angry displeasure at those who do not play his game. For those who dance to his piping he frequently finds good jobs as pressagents in various...