Word: newsreelmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received, first thus to stay and chat with Franklin Roosevelt on his first diplomatic call. As he opened the front door to face the batteries of newsreel and flashbulb cameramen, a scrawny, tired black cat strolled casually across his path. He stooped and picked it up, while the newsreelmen went into a delighted frenzy.* The cat, counterpart of the one in London, named "Appeasement," which haunts No. 10 Downing St., was instantly dubbed "Crisis...
...press conference one morning the President announced that he wanted his newshawks to give maximum publicity to his signature to the Social Security Bill. That afternoon, seated in the Cabinet room, he signed?but correspondents were not admitted to see the ceremony. That privilege was reserved for cameramen, newsreelmen and some 30 honored guests. With the bill's true authors, Senator Wagner and Representative David Lewis, at his right and left, with Madame Secretary Perkins behind him and with the Bill's foster father, Representative Doughton, in a position of proximate importance, the President read off a statement concluding...
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