Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carolina. Franklin Roosevelt was ready for the returns which showed that he had failed to purge Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith (see p. 26). He had a double-barreled reply: 1) Secretary Steve Early announced that the President had privately predicted a Smith victory by 40,000 votes, 2) the press was given for direct quotation a one-sentence sample of sententious Presidential philosophy: "It takes a long, long time to bring the past up to the present." Second came the case of California for which Franklin Roosevelt was not prepared. At the news that Senator "Dear Mac" McAdoo had been...
Members of Congress tremble before what "Washington Merry-Go-Round" may say about them-and T. Corcoran provides it with plenty to say. Evidence of his press sagacity is his occasional use also of such panting Liberals as Columnist John F. Carter (alias Jay Franklin...
...ablest phrasemaker writing for the U. S. press, General Hugh Johnson last week had fun playing with the President's nicknaming whimsey. The President calls his Secretary of the Treasury "Henry the Morgue." Columnist Johnson toyed with "Harry the Hop," "Fanny the Perk," "Danny the Rope," "Leo the Hen," "Harold the Ick," "Alben the Bark"-then gave up and said: "Try this new White House game on your acquaintances, mah frens...
Destiny of the exported wheat is still undetermined, though presumably it will be sold in China, Great Britain, The Netherlands. Likewise uncertain is the method of making the program jibe with Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade agreements. Asked at his press conference about Henry Wallace's statement that differences between the two departments had been ironed out, Cordell Hull replied curtly: "I think comment from one Cabinet member is sufficient...
...millionaires aboard a trans-atlantic liner. Feeling out of things because they were talking nothing but big money, he ordered 365 glasses of creme de menthe, whereat the millionaires treated him as one of them. Firsthand, the funniest thing he remembers is when the left-wing press said his Tom Paine should have been written by "a competent Marxist." In a lame conclusion he tells in detail how he wrote each of his biographies, stresses above all the need for complete candor. In the light of this maxim, his own self-biography will seem to most readers a conspicuous exception...