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...When we inaugurated our custom of having informal press conferences last March there were some who shook their heads and said it couldn't last. Well, it has worked fine, and I don't see why it shouldn't continue for the next three years." A newshawk: "Three years, did you say, Mr. President?" For an instant the President's famed aplomb was shaken as he groped for an answer. Then he made his usual effective reply: threw back his head and roared with laughter...
...White House press conference last week a newshawk popped a question at President Roosevelt that seemed as irrelevant to the day's doings as the pictured ships which sail endlessly around the walls of the President's office. What, asked he, did the President think about important Democratic politicians who camp-followed the New Deal into Washington and set themselves up as lawyer-lobbyists to handle private matters for fat fees before Government departments...
...dogs. But President Roosevelt, too smart a politician to let even his best friends dirty up his administration with their greedy tricks, was ready to meet the issue headon. With a righteous ring the President answered the question not in direct quotations but in such a way that every newshawk got his meaning: the practice of lawyers capitalizing on their political connections is not in keeping with the spirit of his administration, since it implies backdoor access to administration officials...
Even an extraordinary newshawk, obliged to send a story a day from the Antarctic, must resort to much journalistic bilge. The newshawk with Byrd's Second Antarctic Expedition, Charles John Vincent Murphy, is not extraordinary. But last week aboard the Jacob Ruppert as she crept through the drift ice toward Little America, Reporter Murphy was unexpectedly handed the ideal Byrd expedition story of sudden danger, a narrow escape and a happy ending...
...Newshawk: Is there any romance between...