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...trouble began when Mr. Slemp began to make exceptions to the newspapermen's rulings. One Elbert Deets Pickett, managing editor of The Clipsheet, Methodist Church paper (see page 18) applied for admission for himself or his representative to the President's press conferences...
Thereupon the newspapermen notified Mr. Coolidge that if such was the case the burden of policing press conferences and protecting the President's confidences could no longer rest on them but must fall on Mr. Slemp. Their object in restricting the classes of persons admitted to press conferences has been, not to exclude others than newspapermen from interviews with the President, but to insure that only bona-fide journalists could be present at conferences when the President chose to speak purely for the enlightenment of correspondents and not for those who might take advantage of his words in furthering...
Attorney General Daugherty called newspapermen about him for the first regular press conference at his Department in eleven months...
...newspapermen who gave Firpo his nom de guerre, "Wild Bull of the Pampas." And later it was the newspapermen who had Luis eat raw meat. Thus with a single flourish of the pen is a bovine rendered carnivorous. One journalist (Frank F. O'Neill of The Sun and The Globe] had wit enough to remark: " The public is expected to see a horned man roaming about with blood from fresh-killed steaks dripping from his mouth...
...room in which the demonstration took place is 100 feet square by 60 feet high, walled with brick and lined with steel to safeguard the exterior world. Although assured that there was no danger, the handful of invited newspapermen signed liability releases before entering and stood trembling on a high steel platform while the gigantic bolts flashed under their noses. Three huge transforming towers 30 feet high wound with 100 miles of wire and grounded in tanks containing 40,000 gallons of oil, the whole inside a protecting cage of steel wire, were used to " step up " a current...