To the Senate press gallery as usual one day last week went grey old Clinton Wallace ("Pop") Gilbert, chief Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and the New York Evening Post. He cocked a melancholy eye down into the chamber, saw nothing newsworthy. Back in the gallery anteroom, he sat down, took pencil & paper, wrote a short, simple "piece" for his journals. It told how U. S. Business had swung in behind President Roosevelt's program for fear of something more drastic. After lunch, Correspondent Gilbert went downtown, called on his...
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