Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After putting his foot in his mouth while speaking to the press during the Washington Disarmament Conference, President Warren Gamaliel Harding, to save diplomatic embarrassment, ordered that correspondents must put their questions to him in writing. Calvin Coolidge perfected this technique by inventing "a White House spokesman" to whom his words must be attributed. Last week when Franklin Roosevelt wanted to read U. S. Business and Labor a lecture on "sabre-rattling" (see p. 63), comparing them to the bad boys of European politics in a way that might have provoked protests from "friendly nations," the "spokesman" reappeared. He also...
...Hyde Park went Professor & Mrs. Felix Frankfurter for a visit. Franklin Roosevelt warned the press not to go "out on a limb" by predicting Dr. Frankfurter's appointment to the Supreme Court: this was just the Frankfurters' "annual visit." Staying off the limb, some observers wondered whether Host Roosevelt was perhaps explaining to faithful (except on the Court Plan) Felix Frankfurter why he could not be appointed...
...July 1937 by Leftist President Manuel Azaña, but last week New York Timesman Lawrence A. Fernsworth wirelessed from France that this time Premier Negrin meant business. In Spain, significantly added Mr. Fernsworth "the suggestion that peace negotiations may be under way is not permissible in the press or in news dispatches sent out of the country." The Leftist Government remains pledged to victory, "a formula that does not exclude victory by negotiation...
...Joseph Stalin's most dramatic move since the last Moscow "purge trial," the biggest gun of the Soviet press this week opened up against Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Strangest feature of the Changkufeng affair to Russian and outside observers was that during and after the border battles Russian press comment omitted all mention of the Soviet's famed "Red Napoleon," Marshal Vasily Bluecher, Commander in Chief of the Far Eastern Army. One yellow newsman, the Japanese Domei agency's Ihacha Hagueno, dared to flash the flat statement that Marshal Bluecher had been arrested. In retaliation, Soviet secret police pounced on Hagueno's Russian woman translator and clamped her into jail. Promptly Japanese newsorgans announced that Marshal Bluecher had been not only arrested but had committed...