Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Ross, 62, a lanky hound-dog-sad-looking man who succeeded Steve Early as press secretary. Likable, intelligent, usually tired, he dogtrots through a delicate and strategic job; he is also handicapped by Mr. Truman's understandable but unhelpful desire to keep all details of his personal life private. Ross went to high school with the President, became chief of the Washington Bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, once won a Pulitzer prize for his stories on the Hoover depression...
...York City's James A. Farley, who got almost as much applause as the President did at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner a fortnight ago (TIME, March I) was asked last week during a radio press interview (Mutuals Meet the Press) if he would accept a Democratic nomination as Vice President. Big Jim promptly boomed the shortest, clearest, most emphatic political statment...
...York's Thomas E. Dewey, who had holed up at his desk in Albany while his chief rivals crisscrossed the country like bird dogs working a covert, announced a change in tactics. He told his Albany press conference that he was going to give up his vacation and go delegate-hunting himself next month. Friends thought he might try the South, maybe the West...
...baby (11 Ibs.) in Nashville, recorded his name as James Douglas Johnston, and, on directions from Big Jim, "withheld the birth of the child from press publicity." She did not complain-Big Jim was running for governor and had promised to make her the "first lady of Alabama" afterwards. She didn't even object to his campaign methods: he traveled to the "crossroads, the branch-heads and the brush arbors" with a hillbilly band, called on it to strike up a tune called "Pucker up, Honey, Jim Folsom's Comin'," and then galumphed through crowds kissing...
...press was now rigidly controlled, but a profusion of brief, tragic items charted the brooms' progress. Samples...