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Presidential Secretary Steve Early and a little group of White House employes and pressroom regulars clustered in the President's office one noon last week. Mr. Roosevelt buzzed for Assistant Secretary William D. Hassett. Lank, grey, stooped Bill Hassett, 64, got a little flustered, for the President abruptly announced that this was a court-martial; that he, Bill, had been accused of using some very bad language and the group was gathered to see how good a swearer he really was. Forthwith joke-loving Franklin Roosevelt handed Bill Hassett a commission as full presidential secretary, to succeed the late...
...President also had a little gag for White House newsmen. Appearing at his press conference with a bandage on the nape of his neck, he said it was because he had had a growing wen removed. He mentioned this, he said, so that Secretary Steve Early could have a respite from reporters who had heard that the President had been under the knife...
There was another reaction, almost as immediate as the first. Why had not the Army & Navy disclosed the atrocities earlier? Why had they chosen this particular time to publicize them? White House Secretary Steve Early gave an official reason: the U.S. has given up hope of getting further relief to the remaining prisoners of the Japs. Publication of the atrocities now could do the prisoners no added harm...
White House Secretary Steve Early announced that the "responsible source" and President Roosevelt "seemed to have been thinking along the same lines." But Labor's mild Bill Green, stung, flung a peremptory challenge to "General Marshall or anyone else" to prove that U.S. Labor's record gave the enemy an effective propaganda weapon...
...Florida boom was so big that Press-agent Steve Hannagan no longer has to work at his job of puffing Miami Beach. The Army Air Forces flyers, transferred to Miami by Hap Arnold for rest and relaxation after battle experience, were paying as much as $40 a day for small hotel rooms, $3 to $4 for meals. This hurt: many service wives could not afford to stay near their husbands. Even old Floridians, used to the routine annual outrage, thought things had gone too far. Many a furloughing airmaa was returning to his bomber station dead broke. Some servicemen stationed...