Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wherever newspapermen gather, yarns are swapped. Some are true, some apocryphal. Some are good enough to become part of the shoptalk folklore of the press. From Peking last week came this story...
...composed by himself) the 1st one is to build an army policy, the 2nd one Sino-Japanese cooperation. 8) Japanese prostitute gave two performances. 9) Chinese prostitute sang songs. 10) Japanese prostitute performed, 11) Guests offer performances. 12) Everyone drank 3 cups. 13) Discussion and exchange of opinions. The press reports that it is a heroic as well as romantic meeting, heroic because so many generals participated and the military songs so great, romantic because all the scores of prostitutes are beautiful and enjoyable...
Into the office of Franklin D. Roosevelt one day last week filed a hundred-odd Washington correspondents, for the President's usual bi-weekly press conference. As usual, the reporters fell into two groups: 1) those assigned exclusively to cover President Roosevelt's activities, 2) other correspondents and their newspaper friends. Members of the first group drifted toward the front of the room, as usual, and as usual the United Press's tremendous Fred Storm lowered himself into his special chair so that those in the rear could see past him. Franklin Roosevelt gripped a long cigaret...
...correspondents, about his leaving U. P. to work for Sam Goldwyn and Jimmy Roosevelt in Hollywood. When the conference was over the newspapermen filed out as quietly as they had entered, and everybody knew that, for a time at least, a new atmosphere existed between the President and the Press...
...taste for Franklin Roosevelt to mention Fred Storm's new job publicly, either to congratulate him or commiserate with him on leaving U. P. For only the day before, for the first time in history, a President of the U. S., in a written statement, had accused a press association of sending out a story that was "wholly false." The association was United Press. Facts in the case were these...