Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasions when White House Secretary Steve Early incurs the gratitude of his chief by a spectacularly able job of work, he is likely to get a penciled memorandum: "Well done-F. D. R." Last week, Secretary Early got his first such memorandum in two years, after a press conference of his own in which he explained that the President will keep none of the money he gets from newspaper and magazine contracts for his State papers; that he will ask Congress for special legislation to dispose of the money...
...Reported favorably by a 17-to-7 majority of the House Ways & Means Committee last week was the 1938 Tax Bill revising provisions for Federal revenue from capital gains and undistributed profits (TIME, Jan. 31). In his anniversary press conference, Franklin Roosevelt deplored the fact that the new bill makes no provisions for publishing salaries of corporation executives...
...elaborate State Department dinner given by Secretary Cordell Hull who undoubtedly wishes that modern trade treaties could be as simply negotiated as they were in 1833. Next day, flanked by an aide-de-campand a secretary who looked like a tar-brushed Groucho Marx, the Sultan held a press conference. Overwhelmingly discreet, his reply to almost every question-including inquiries as to why he had stopped playing tennis and what he thought of U. S. women-was "I can't answer that...
First major reaction to this news came from Arthur E. Morgan, vacationing in Clermont, Fla. who next day issued an 8,000-word statement to the press: After recounting his own part in the Berry case and accusing his colleagues of "conspiracy, secretiveness, and bureaucratic manipulation," the TVA Chairman came to his astounding...
Franklin Roosevelt's reaction to this onslaught was to pass out to the press, without comment, a memorandum from Directors Morgan and Lilienthal which had been in his hands since Jan. 18. Having been prepared before the chairman's charges were made, it did not answer them. But in it the majority directors accused the minority chairman of obstructive tactics in failing to abide by majority decisions, charged that Chairman Morgan had collaborated with private utilitymen to hamper the Board's program, implied that the sensible conclusion would be for Minority Member Morgan to resign...