Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lounging in an old grey suit on the train to Florida City he used his press conference: 1) to lay the ghost of "secrecy" still haunting him for his aid to the French in their U. S. plane-buying (see p. 14); 2) to allay any lingering doubts Business might have about his policies. When asked about a new business "appeasement" program about to be popped by Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt asked: what businessmen need appeasing? No new taxes are planned, he said. With the removal of private obstacles to TVA,* he said, no further Government excursions...
...Sick almost unto death last week with intestinal flu and stomach hemorrhages was popular, convivial, emaciated Presidential Secretary Marvin ("Mac") McIntyre, who usually runs news headquarters ashore when the President goes to sea without the press. Detailed to take "Mac's" place in Miami was Assistant Secretary Bill Hassett, the quiet, dependable oldtime AP man whom Franklin Roosevelt calls "My Bartlett, my Roget, my Buckle...
Italy. No doubt remained last week that there were abnormal military movements in Italy. Last month 60,000 reservists were called up. Last week, with the anti-French campaign in the Italian press gaining momentum, the number was put at 150,000, with 300,000 as the immediate goal. That would give Italy 600,000 men under arms, not counting territorials...
Since 1922 at least seven assassins have tried to kill Dictator Benito Mussolini. Last week 38-year-old Bruno Simoni, former inmate of a Rome insane asylum, shot and wounded a Fascist militiaman guarding the Dictator's Villa Torlonia on Rome's Via Nomentana. Said press reports from Rome: The man was waiting for a chance at Premier Mussolini. Said an official Italian communique: It was the act of a madman who simply happened to be in the vicinity of the Premier's house...
...month run when Lillian Hellman was rushed to Hollywood. There she adapted such cinema hits as The Dark Angel, These Three (the movie version of The Children's Hour), Dead End. In 1936 her second play, Days to Come, opened on Broadway, got a poor press, closed...