Word: oulahan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great "Marse Henry" Watterson, whose Louisville Courier-Journal he later edited. In 1923 he joined the New York World's distinguished staff of editorial writers, thence to the Times. Four years ago he reluctantly returned to Washington, which he disliked, to succeed the late Richard V. Oulahan as Times chief of staff. Remaining severely on the sidelines, immune to official blandishments, Arthur Krock viewed the Capital scene with careful detachment, reported it accurately, interpreted it colorfully. He still considers Washington as "Death Valley for newspapermen...
...destroying plan get Congressional consideration. Under the Hoover plan, outstanding mergers would be: 1) consolidation of all governmental construction under one director; 2) transfer of all merchant marine functions to the Department of Commerce; 3) grouping of all health and education services together. ¶ To the funeral of Richard Oulahan, New York Times correspondent and dean of Washington correspondents (see p. 61) went President & Mrs. Hoover. On the casket of the deceased, who had been kinder to the President than any other Washington correspondent save Mark Sullivan, lay a spray of rosebuds and a palm from the White House greenhouses...
...United Press is rated above the Associated Press in "capacity and character." Richard V. Oulahan of the New York Times ("one of the few really distinguished looking men in Washington") is described as supplying his paper with "front" for $25,000 per year. The New York Herald Tribune's Washington news "is inclined to be sensational and trivial." Mark Sullivan has sunk into "a Republican propaganda medium." Clinton Wallace Gilbert "is one of the few nationally known Washington correspondents who has not compromised his personal or professional integrity, never fawned or groveled." The few other reporters who received praise...