Word: strout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time to watch Franklin Roosevelt is when he is in just such a lightsome mood. Correspondents watched & listened when the Christian Science Monitor's Richard Strout put a grave question. Did the President plan to invite Wendell Willkie to the White House to fashion "a common front" on foreign affairs, take that momentous subject out of roiling campaign politics? Mr. Roosevelt said he had not thought about it, but would be very glad to see Mr. Willkie (who had said in Philadelphia that he would be delighted to see Mr. Roosevelt). The correspondents marked a Roosevelt-Willkie conference large...
Tall, grey Richard Lee Strout, Washington correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, and editor of Maud, 1939 non-fiction bestseller, is well and widely acquainted in the Capital. Correspondent Strout even knows inaccessible, flinty, old (77) James Clark McReynolds, lonesome last conservative on the U. S. Supreme Court (TIME, Dec. 4). Last week Newshawk Strout, striding through last-minute Christmas shopping, encountered the hawk-faced Justice in a toy store off Pennsylvania Avenue. After an exchange of season's greetings, Reporter Strout probed: buying gifts for others? No, said Justice McReynolds-a gift for himself. To a clerk...