Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference, a reporter asked what the President thought of a proposal by Senator Sherman Minton to make it a felony for a newspaper knowingly to publish a false statement. Jovially Franklin Roosevelt replied that he was trying to pare expenses and didn't want to build any more prisons...
...appearance on the White House scene, septuagenarian Mr. Ford was trying out Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' bullet-proof Lincoln. With Mr. Ford on a breeze through the tortuous roadways of Rock Creek Park were his son Edsel and two Washington correspondents, Clifford Prevost of the Detroit Free Press and Jay G. Hayden of the Detroit News. Both Mr. Prevost and Mr. Hayden have developed excellent news contacts with Ford Motor Co., and they later were to serve as the only authoritative reporters of a historic two hours in the life of Mr. Ford and in the Administration...
...these meetings, Wisconsin's slim, serious young Governor talked in significantly vague terms about his own future and the nation's. Conferees and the press, to whom Phil La Follette maintained an air of tantalizing secrecy, were led to believe that something significant was afoot. The belief was substantiated last fortnight when the Governor delivered four voluminous radio speeches on successive nights. Gist of last fortnight's radio speeches was: 1) that both La Follettes had broken with Franklin Roosevelt when he hopefully cut down on spending a year ago, and 2) that a message of first...
Court circles saw in this denial fresh evidence of the close, brotherly relations of His Majesty and the Duke of Windsor who, annoyed by world-wide press mentions of "Duchess Wallis' 20-carat tub at La Croe" had, perhaps, picked up the telephone, got the King-Emperor to correct the tub story...
...when Germany absorbed Austria. Whether or not events in Austria have taught Lord Halifax things he did not know about Germans, the conference at No. 10 Downing Street last week impressed London correspondents as of historic moment. They drew the United Kingdom and the French Republic into what United Press's Webb Miller called "an unwritten military alliance...