Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither the N. A. M. meeting nor a Gallup poll in which 58% of the replies held the New Deal wholly or partly responsible for the depression, drew a response from the White House. By way of a moderate gesture of encouragement to Business, the President, however, told a press conference that he was against Government control of railroads (seep...
...Visiting Washington for the Gridiron Dinner, Kansas' onetime Governor Alfred M. Landon called at the White House, later retailed to the press a story he had told his 1936 rival...
...Kennedy was besieged by the press. Said he: "It sounds just like one of those things." This cryptic comment was no rebuttal. Neither the State Department nor the President showed an inclination to deny the report. Having already finished his job as chairman of the Maritime Commission (TIME, Nov. 22), Joe Kennedy gave a farewell party to his staff at his Maryland mansion, and set off for a fortnight's holiday at Palm Beach in the manner of a man getting ready to tackle...
Moscow, jolly Mr. Davies called at the White House, just before all the news leaked out, jovially announced to the press: "I'll go anywhere the boss sends me." Best chance for Joe Davies to go anywhere except back to Russia last week was that Franklin Roosevelt might send him to Paris, in case he recalled his friend "Bill" Bullitt to replace Hugh Wilson...
Most of the labor sessions-largely devoted to undiluted labor-baiting-were closed to the Press. But reporters were led in to hear a speech by Hartley W. Barclay, the Mill & Factory editor who defied a subpoena from the National Labor Relations Board last fortnight, which he maintained was a violation of the Freedom of the Press. Before Editor Barclay spoke, a list of newspapers and wire services represented was read off to the businessmen because: "No doubt you will want to get these papers and see how they treat our people." After the Barclay speech the reporters were...