Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tapped out these lines on her typewriter and thereby set a new record for keyhole journalism. No secret was Hedda Hopper's news about the President's eldest son: Walter Winchell had hinted at it months ago, rumors had drifted about Hollywood and Washington ever since James Roosevelt became Vice President of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., leaving his wife Betsy (daughter of the late, great Surgeon Harvey Gushing) in the East...
...Hopper, with this story up her sleeve, heard that a rival columnist was about to break it. On a Saturday night at nine o'clock, with three hours to make the deadline for the Times early-morning editions, she picked up a telephone and tried to get James Roosevelt at his home in Beverly Hills. Two hours later she was still ringing, had got no answer. So Hedda Hopper sat down and wrote her story...
...Miss Hopper stepped up to the Roosevelt door, rang and rang, roused up a friend, who roused up James Roosevelt. Samuel Goldwyn's Vice President appeared in a woollen bathrobe, one foot slippered, the other bare. Said he graciously: "Oh, hello, Hedda." Miss Hopper handed him the story. James Roosevelt studied it a moment, shrugged and.said...
More than that he did not have to say. Hedda Hopper shook his hand understandingly, hopped in her car, drove straight to the office of the Los Angeles Times. There she wrote a new lead, quoting James Roosevelt's words. The front page was replated, pushing aside news of the war in Europe. At four in the morning on a quiet Sunday last week Hedda Hopper's story was on the street. A characteristic California story, it ranked as the Pacific Coast's newsbeat of the year...
...worst depression intact (only deficit: $2,829,000 in 1932). The New Deal's Monopoly Committee regarded J.M. under him as an example of enlightened management in Big Business; he was summoned to Washington at the beginning of Depression II to give his views to Franklin Roosevelt. Neatest trick of all, Johns-Manville has C. I. O., A. F. of L. and independent unions scattered through its plants, firmly opposes closed shop, is at present on good terms with all its labor...