Word: roddan
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...night last week NBC got the White House Portico Quartet to sing "Home on the Range'' over a network. The quartet: Roosevelt Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, United Press's Fred Storm, Chicago Tribune's John Boettiger, Universal Service's Edward Roddan.* President Roosevelt interrupted a White House conference on the National Recovery Act to listen in. When the singers finished, the President telephoned the broadcasting studio. Disguising his voice he got the quartet leader on the wire. Approximately the following dialog then took place...
...many of whom were long known to the President. Ernest Lindley of the New York Herald Tribune had covered Mr. Roosevelt since he began his first gubernatorial term at Albany. U. P.'s Storm had been with him since the winter of 1929. Universal's Edward L. Roddan, International's George Durno, A. P.'s Francis Stephenson, Chicago Tribune's John Boettiger had been on the job since the Presidential campaign...
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