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...President Roosevelt held his first two press conferences. To the first went 120 newshawks who applauded when he announced his system of verbal questions & answers, "off the record" confidences and short-hand record of everything said. To the second conference flocked 60. The President sat through it with his right leg cocked over his left knee and his right trouser leg hiked up almost to his knee. Asked if he enjoyed his first night in the White House, he replied: "Off the record, I haven't got much sleep since I've been here." Associated Pressman Francis Stephenson...
...reporters "cover" the Senate for the Congressional Record. They work in 15 minute shifts, generally sitting in empty Senate seats, sometimes at a table directly under the rostrum. Across special short-hand paper their fine-pointed pens fly in a script all their own. In the thick of argument, with half a dozen Senators darting in and out of the fray, they have no need to glance up but identify each Senator by the sound of his voice. Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect...
...about 56. They are younger, sprier, more active than members of the British House of Lords. The oldest Senator, 79, is Massachusetts's Frederick Huntington Gillett. Older than any Senator, with a far longer period of continuous Senate sendee, is Theodore F. Shuey, for 61 years a short-hand reporter of Senate debates. Last week Reporter Shuey, small, wiry, was 85. The Senate laid aside the Tariff Bill long enough to congratulate him on his great age and his still great ability as a stenographer. As it happened, he was reporting during this eulogy and with unerring accuracy took...
...which routed out an aged invalid lady, trundled her around the city in a motor car eagerly lent and frequently mentioned in the subsequent sob-story, named shops and hotels which elaborately displayed their wares and hospitality to her and the Times reporter, and trundled her home amid a short-hand account of her boundless gratitude to all the super-generous publicists concerned? What did they think of the St. Paul Pioneer Press which published a full-page self-advertisement to the effect that it was entirely responsible for the visit of Santy Claus to St. Paul this year? What...
...Schwab then referred to the youthful hardships of Bertie Charles Forbes? learning short-hand at 13 in his native Scotland; leaving school at 14 to be a printer's devil: reporting news at meagre wages for the Dundee Courier; helping to found the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa, aged 21; reporting news, at no salary, for the New York Journal of Commerce. "There were days and nights of drudgery during which the one thing he wanted was a smile," said Mr. Schwab's article...