Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later, in Hyde Park, the President held a press conference. Never had reporters seen Franklin Roosevelt in such a mood of passive defeatism. Though not knocked out, he appeared definitely stunned by what he had taken. Only flash of his old self was a sidelong crack to the effect that the Senate, in leaving Neutrality up in the air, causing "uncertainty" (for which he has so often been blamed) and "gambling" against war abroad, had bud-nipped a nice little boom.* > The Hatch bill effectually demolished the national Roosevelt political machine, as distinct from the national Farley machine...
Early this week Secretary Hudson, badgered by the press and politicians, was once reported on the point of resigning. The Prime Minister, tranquil as ever, appeared before Parliament to explain. The Hudson-Wohlthat discussions were "private" and "unofficial" and the Cabinet knew nothing about them in advance, the Prime Minister reiterated. The Secretary and the foreign trade expert were simply discussing how international confidence could be restored, and naturally they mentioned international trade, barter agreements, exchange restrictions, import quotas. But there was "nothing unusual" in the talks and certainly no loan was proposed...
...headline is, of course, wholly false; so is the story. . . . The United Press has been guilty of a falsification of the actual facts. If called upon to give the source of the information, they will decline to give it. ... The fact remains that the story is contrary to every fact. ... I am calling this to the attention of the public because it represents a culmination of other false news stories to which the attention of the United Press has been called by me and by my office on previous occasions. . . . This latest episode . . . represents the limit of any decent person...
...show her foot to her husband, a tailor who had lost his faith 31 years ago when an earthquake in Italy wiped out his family. "I believe! I believe!" cried Anthony Geraci, and rushed back to St. Lucy's with his wife. Soon there was such a press round the Geracis at the shrine that police had to be called. As the crowds continued to grow, Father Lombardo, who had heard of small "favors" (minor cures) at the shrine, said of Mrs. Geraci's healing: "It is a miracle of faith. I will report it to the Chancery...
Last week, Mr. Groesbeck began to see daylight. At a White House press conference, the President used a routine question about TVA as an opportunity to take newsmen up the mountain. He pointed out that "a company," obviously meaning Washington Water Power, in Grand Coulee and Bonneville territory had just sold an issue at "pretty good terms," thus inviting White House reporters to chalk one up for his contention that operating companies with good capital structures (a pat for Washington Water Power) whose "managers" indulge in no soapboxing (a pat for Groesbeck) can count on all the "investor confidence" they...