Word: suydam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HARRY SUYDAM...
...opinion of many a Washington newshawk last week the New Deal lost one of its ablest pressagents when Henry West Suydam, Special Executive Assistant to Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, resigned to write political articles and editorials for the Newark News. A onetime registered Republican, Henry Suydam joined Mr. Cummings' staff in 1934, brought about an immediate improvement in his principal's "press." No snowstorm of mimeographed releases blew from Mr. Suydam's office, but news-leads which Washington correspondents were usually glad...
...Henry Suydam who took the lid of secrecy off the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, made arrangements for spot-news releases on happenings in that famed and gloomy jail. As a pressagent, Assistant Suydam knew what Washington correspondents wanted because he had been a successful one himself. Brooklyn-born and Dutch-speaking, he was World War Correspondent for the Brooklyn Eagle. He ran the Eagle's Washington Bureau from 1922 until he left to help out Homer Cummings. In his old office in the Colorado Building, Henry Suydam was a neighbor of the Newark News...
...elected president of the Lampoon last December. t Fan Stylian Noli, exiled in 1924. Also expected at the 1912 Reunion is U. S. Minister to Albania Hugh Gladney Grant. **Kermit Roosevelt, who in 1929 while on an expedition in the Himalayas with Brother Theodore & Classmate Charles Suydam Cutting shot (not "caught") a Giant Panda, now on exhibition in Chicago's Field Museum...
Under Assistant Suydam, the Department of Justice release on the Stoll case made more sense and better reading than any of the reams written by groping newshawks on the Louisville. Nashville, Terre Haute and Indianapolis front...