Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Laboring Press. No day of C. I. O.'s convention passed without a rousing attack on the U. S. Press. This was all right with the 40-odd working newspapermen who were present to report the convention...
Last week when his press conference assembled, Franklin Roosevelt brushing aside other subjects, picked up a typewritten sheet and, in cold accents so deliberate that reporters could take it down verbatim, he read: "The news of the past few days from Germany has deeply shocked public opinion in the United States. Such news from any part of the world would inevitably produce a similar profound reaction among American people in every part of the nation...
...54th Attorney General of the U. S. last week held his "farewell" press conference. He reviewed his labors, which began with an opinion on the President's power to call a bank holiday, written personally, in penciled long hand, in the Library of Congress while his chief's first inaugural was in progress March 4, 1933. He recalled the hot legal battles of AAA and NRA; the building of the FBI from a sleuthing unit to an armed force with powers of arrest and a sharp-toothed Federal crime code behind it; the improvement of U. S. prisons...
Though he will not actually leave office until after Congress meets in January, Homer Stille Cummings then thanked the press for being good to him, shook hands all round with tears in his eyes...
Some, feeling that the U. S. Press has sinned often and greatly against U. S. Labor, did not blame Labor for making a whipping boy of the sinner, did not mind hearing C. I. O. denounce their publisher bosses. All were prepared to dine amicably on the fourth evening with John L. Lewis, who wished to salute the biggest outpouring of correspondents accorded any convention since the Democratic National Convention...