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Pius XII evidently remembered some of the things he had learned about the press when as Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli he toured the U.S. (1936). Soon after their unique session last week, newsmen heard that the Vatican would open a pressroom. The Vatican was missing no legitimate opportunity to put its case for peace before the world...
...minute chat with Thomas Rhea, a Democratic leader in Kentucky. Quizzed by the cold-eyed White House pressroom gang, Democrat Rhea gave the reporters to understand that the President had said he did not want to run for reelection. Then the Kentuckian gulped and hedged: the President had just used language which gave that impression...
Presidential Secretary Steve Early and a little group of White House employes and pressroom regulars clustered in the President's office one noon last week. Mr. Roosevelt buzzed for Assistant Secretary William D. Hassett. Lank, grey, stooped Bill Hassett, 64, got a little flustered, for the President abruptly announced that this was a court-martial; that he, Bill, had been accused of using some very bad language and the group was gathered to see how good a swearer he really was. Forthwith joke-loving Franklin Roosevelt handed Bill Hassett a commission as full presidential secretary, to succeed the late...
...crack New York-Buffalo Lackawanna Limited cracked up one night a fortnight ago in upper New York State, available reporters were as scarce as hen's teeth. How the United Press got the story of the wreck, in which 28 died in live steam, made a yarn for pressroom spinning. Seldom had improvised telephone coverage, which newspapers and news associations constantly use, turned out so successfully...
Suddenly the White House switchboard went into action. Out to the scattered newsmen went a warning: stand by at the pressroom for news. Back to the White House, from home and bar and party, the newsmen scurried. They gathered outside Secretary Stephen Early's office, to whisper, wait and wonder...