Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said she at Hyde Park. Her son in Washington was guarded almost as though the U. S. were at war. Ringing him, barricading the approaches to the House chamber where he was to speak, were 150 Washington police, extra Secret Service details, 150 Capitol guards. They policed even the press galleries, stopped Attorney General Frank Murphy when he brushed past. Conspicuously absent from the attending Senators was Idaho's Isolationist Borah. Absent from the crowded diplomatic gallery were the representatives of Germany, Italy, Japan. Conspicuously present on the floor was a captain of the willful opposition, Michigan...
Noses Submerged. "About what was expected," said a spokesman for Adolf Hitler, who expects no good of Franklin Roosevelt. The British press, dashed by the President's expressed aversion to all wars, including their present one, told their readers not to be impatient. Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary Steve Early announced that overnight telegrams exceeded the response to any of the President's recent speeches. Implication: that the flood of anti-repeal letters and wires to Congress did not tell the whole story...
Reporters at press conference next day found that the President had gone from hot-weather shirt sleeves into a grey suitcoat, seemingly new. Not new, said he: the suit was at least a year old. Whereupon he peeked at a label, amazedly announced that the suit was bought in 1936. Then he amazed the correspondents. He announced, as a matter of public information, that two foreign submarines had been sighted in U. S. waters. One was off the boundary point of Alaska and Canada, the other somewhere off Boston, midway between Nova Scotia and Nantucket...
...After Raymond Moley began to edit Today (now, with him, merged with Newsweek), he had a chat with Franklin Roosevelt. "Did I realize, I was asked, that when I made a speech or wrote an editorial I was quoted by the Republican press only because of the fact that I was formerly a member of his administration? It took a minute to answer that one as gently as I knew I must...
...past weeks the press (with few exceptions) has sought to convey the impression that the Communist movement has been shattered, its members mazed in confusion and disillusionment, its ranks thinned by mass defection. The resignation of Granville Hicks, reported in the Press, is already being seized upon as an incident to lend plausibility to this tissue of fiction...