Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncomfortable. The room was quiet as a church. The President broke the silence, made his announcement on neutrality. The questions asked him were terse and sober; his replies were concise. Not a word did Franklin Roosevelt say to Fred Storm, one of his favorite correspondents, about his leaving U. P. to work for Sam Goldwyn and Jimmy Roosevelt in Hollywood. When the conference was over the newspapermen filed out as quietly as they had entered, and everybody knew that, for a time at least, a new atmosphere existed between the President and the Press...
...would not have been in good taste for Franklin Roosevelt to mention Fred Storm's new job publicly, either to congratulate him or commiserate with him on leaving U. P. For only the day before, for the first time in history, a President of the U. S., in a written statement, had accused a press association of sending out a story that was "wholly false." The association was United Press. Facts in the case were these...
...days before, Ronald G. Van Tine of the U. P. had been told by a Senator (whom he refused to name) that the President was "hopping mad" over the shelving of his Neutrality Bill, that Secretary Hull was urging him not to send a "forceful" message to Congress. The U. P.'s Grattan P. McGroarty had got similar news at the State Department. Correspondents Van Tine and McGroarty sent out a story, under Van Tine's signature, beginning: "President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull were reported in Administration quarters today to have disagreed on the language...
Cold with anger, Franklin Roosevelt sat down and dictated a statement, denying that he and Cordell Hull had yet decided what to do next about neutrality, giving U. P. a piece of his mind. Excerpts...
...Smith's thunderous writings, his private battles, his oratorical eloquence. Old timers still quote from his street-corner oration on the death of John Barleycorn, the night before Prohibition took effect. One of his speeches ("When You Die, Will You Live Again?") was so highly esteemed by one P. S. Harris, president of Lucky Tiger Remedy Co., that Mr. Harris gave The Pitchfork a lifetime advertising contract, reprinted the speech and sent copies to every barbershop...