Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then the battle was disconcerted again. An observer (the Hearst press) noticed what looked like a spy within the Republican lines. The observer told Chief of Staff Harrison, chief hurler of Democratic sarcasm grenades. To the breast-works leapt Harrison and shouted that Brigadier Bingham, the Republican's most air-conscious hero and a superb college professor, had harbored in his tent one Charles L. Eyanson, assistant to the chieftain of the Manufacturers' Association in Brigadier Bingham's home domain of Connecticut; that this Eyanson had received federal pay as Bingham's assistant, what time...
When these statements appeared in the press, newsgatherers at once sought to question Cary Travers Grayson M. D., the naval physician whom Woodrow Wilson raised to a Rear-Admiral's rank and kept beside him at the White House. But Dr. Grayson was inaccessible in Europe. From the late President's daughters-Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo-came no statements. The President's widow was inaccessible in the Orient...
Anticipating some sort of protest, Professor Pitkin explained through the press that he had not meant to suggest that the alleged Wilson infirmities were "shameful" or "monstrous." "Thousands of people cheerfully exhibit and endure far worse ills of the flesh. . . . He might have avoided most of the myriad condemnations simply by being honest and admitting physical frailties. But this would have interfered with his restless aspirations. Voters would never elect sick men as governors and presidents...
Under the august initials of the Associated Press, the country was informed one day last week that "a substantial reduction in taxes, favored by President Hoover, will be recommended . . . by the Treasury, to become effective March 15. . . . While not predicting . . . the $300,000,000 variety, officials said it would be large...
...next press conference, Andrew William Mellon announced that this was news to the Secretary of the Treasury; it was premature, "wholly speculative." Under Secretary Mills protested he had been misinterpreted. The White House joined in the repudiation...